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.
Interpretation
Roy Lichtenstein reflects on the tension in commercial art between its rigid nature and the freedom of artistic expression.
In this quote, Roy Lichtenstein discusses the paradox found in commercial art, where typical conventions and clichéd forms create a seemingly rigid framework. However, he emphasizes that true art transcends these constraints, highlighting the inherent conflicts that arise when artistic expression is subjected to the limitations of commercial expectations.
In practice
In a discussion on the evolution of art at a gallery opening.
I don't know why you'd want to say your work comes from nature, because art is related to perception, not nature. All abstract artists try to tell you that what they do comes from nature, and I'm always trying to tell you that what I do is completely abstract. We're both saying something we want to be true.
Making something good and saying something brilliant are not two things. When you make your own statement, there is a higher energy level, and you do better painting.
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
All great films are a resolution of a conflict between darkness and light. There is no single right way to express yourself. There are infinite possibilities for the use of light with shadows and colors. The decisions you make about composition, movement and the countless combinations of these and other variables is what makes it an art.
Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.
A comic will always be more 'personal' than a DVD or CD, both of which require electronic 'players' to decode their content. With comics, the reader is the player so the engagement with the material is always more fundamental and dynamic. Reading comics is a much less passive activity than consuming CDs and DVDs.
She adored all beautiful things in their every curve and fragrance, so that they became part of her. Day by day, she gathered beauty; had she had no heart (she who was the bosom of womanhood) her thoughts would still have been as lilies, because the good is the beautiful.
Writing, for me, was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obstinacy, not talent, saved my life.
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