People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn’t. It’s a convention.
ROY LICHTENSTEINIm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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In America the biggest is the best.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.
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But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.
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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’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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I was at Rutgers University, and that was a center for Fluxus in a way. But it wasn’t what I was interested in.
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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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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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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there’s another purpose to it.
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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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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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