When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.
ROY LICHTENSTEINUse the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don’t look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.
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Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn’t. It’s a convention.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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There are certain things that are usable, forceful, and vital about commercial art. We’re using those things – but we’re not really advocating stupidity, international teenagerism, and terrorism.
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I’m never drawing the object itself; I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.
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I don’t really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle about it. I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.
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But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse – including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He’s such an American symbol, and such an anti-art symbol.
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