I was at Rutgers University, and that was a center for Fluxus in a way. But it wasn’t what I was interested in.
ROY LICHTENSTEINI dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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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 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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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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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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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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 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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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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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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Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist.
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.
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