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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINIn America the biggest is the best.
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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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In America the biggest is the best.
ROY LICHTENSTEINIn America the biggest is the best.
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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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINMy 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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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
ROY LICHTENSTEINYou have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
ROY LICHTENSTEINI’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
ROY LICHTENSTEINAll my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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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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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
ROY LICHTENSTEINOutside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
ROY LICHTENSTEINWe like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINAs 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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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
ROY LICHTENSTEINIm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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….
ROY LICHTENSTEINMy 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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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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINPeople 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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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
ROY LICHTENSTEINArt doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
ROY LICHTENSTEINPainting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
ROY LICHTENSTEINUse the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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