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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINIm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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 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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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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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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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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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.
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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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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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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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All of it had an impact – as did happenings – because I could see that art was changing from expressionism, which I was doing at the time, or thought I was doing. But it wasn’t the direction I really wanted to go.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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