American - Artist | October 27, 1923 - September 29, 1997
The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is being made.
Roy Lichtenstein
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My work isn't about form. It's about seeing.
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Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
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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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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable. I don't really know what to make of it. There's something terribly brittle about it.
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There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.
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I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm 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 think we're much smarter than we were. 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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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way.
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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