I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.
ROY LICHTENSTEINArt doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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In America the biggest is the best.
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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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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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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 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.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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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 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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