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 LICHTENSTEINYou forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don’t look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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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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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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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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There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you’re trying to make.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don’t look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.
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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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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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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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Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there’s another purpose to it.
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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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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But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.
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