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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
Roy Lichtenstein
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Roy Lichtenstein
Age: 73 †
Born: 1923
Born: October 27
Died: 1997
Died: September 29
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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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. 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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I'm never drawing the object itself I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
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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.... 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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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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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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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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