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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
Roy Lichtenstein
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Roy Lichtenstein
Age: 73 †
Born: 1923
Born: October 27
Died: 1997
Died: September 29
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Jewelry Designer
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New York City
Roy Fox Lichtenstein
Roy F. Lichtenstein
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But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.
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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 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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There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. 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 like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
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You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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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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Pop Art is industrial painting. I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it's what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, it won't be American it will be universal.
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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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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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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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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 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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My work isn't about form. It's about seeing. I'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other people see things.
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Outside is the world it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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