Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN
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.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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Picasso’s always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.
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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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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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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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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 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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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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My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.
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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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Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don’t really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don’t think you could do this.
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All of it had an impact – as did happenings – because I could see that art was changing from expressionism, which I was doing at the time, or thought I was doing. But it wasn’t the direction I really wanted to go.
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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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