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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. i think art since cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. it is utopian. it has less and less to do with the world. it looks inward - neo-zen and all that. pop art looks out into the world. it doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
-Roy Lichtenstein
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What Interests Me Is To Paint The

Roy Lichtenstein
What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. i think art since cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. it is utopian. it has less and less to do with the world. it looks inward - neo-zen and all that. 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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