I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
ROY LICHTENSTEINWhat interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.
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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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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.
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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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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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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.
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People mistake the character of line for the character of art. But it’s really the position of line that’s important, or the position of anything, any contrast, not the character of it.
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My direction is very anti-contemplative. If you thought I was for commercial products, you’d think there was no irony. The irony isn’t meant to be an ironic comment on our society, exactly.
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