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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINWhat interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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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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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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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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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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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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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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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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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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