I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.
ROY LICHTENSTEINI dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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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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I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward – neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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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 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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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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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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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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My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.
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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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