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 LICHTENSTEINWe like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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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’m never drawing the object itself; I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
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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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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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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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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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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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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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A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse – including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He’s such an American symbol, and such an anti-art symbol.
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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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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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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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