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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINColor is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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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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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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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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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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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 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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I don’t really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle about it. I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.
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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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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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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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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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