Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
ROY LICHTENSTEINThere is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you’re trying to make.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don’t look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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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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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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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’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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My direction is very anti-contemplative. If you thought I was for commercial products, you’d think there was no irony. The irony isn’t meant to be an ironic comment on our society, exactly.
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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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And I dont really want it to carry one. Im not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.
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There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you’re trying to make.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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