Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
ROY LICHTENSTEINIm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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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’re not living in a school-of-Paris world, you know, and the things we really see in America are like this. It’s McDonald’s, it’s not Le Corbusier.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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As long as the marks are related to one another, there is unity. Unity in the work itself depends on unity of the artist’s vision.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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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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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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I don’t think that I’m over his influence but they probably don’t look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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