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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINIm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don’t really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don’t think you could do this.
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Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit.
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I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward – neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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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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My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read that way….
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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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My work isn’t about form. It’s about seeing. I’m excited about seeing things, and I’m interested in the way I think other people see things.
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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There must be something about art… almost all cultures have done art. It’s a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.
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