My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read that way….
ROY LICHTENSTEINWe like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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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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In America the biggest is the best.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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The big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all the traditions- all the other so-called rules, because they are stylistic.. and most are not true.
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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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