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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINColor is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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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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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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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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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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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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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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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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I don’t think that I’m over his influence but they probably don’t look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.
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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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In America the biggest is the best.
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