Pop Art is industrial painting.
ROY LICHTENSTEINWhat interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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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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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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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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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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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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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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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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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.
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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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