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 LICHTENSTEINI dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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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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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it’s very hard to guess at a size or a color and the colors around it and what it will really look like. It’s only a guess at the beginning, and then I try to refine it.
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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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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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All of it had an impact – as did happenings – because I could see that art was changing from expressionism, which I was doing at the time, or thought I was doing. But it wasn’t the direction I really wanted to go.
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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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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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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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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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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I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it’s what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, it won’t be American; it will be universal.
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