I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it’s very hard to guess at a size or a color and the colors around it and what it will really look like. It’s only a guess at the beginning, and then I try to refine it.
ROY LICHTENSTEINI’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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As long as the marks are related to one another, there is unity. Unity in the work itself depends on unity of the artist’s vision.
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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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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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We’re not living in a school-of-Paris world, you know, and the things we really see in America are like this. It’s McDonald’s, it’s not Le Corbusier.
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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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There are certain things that are usable, forceful, and vital about commercial art. We’re using those things – but we’re not really advocating stupidity, international teenagerism, and terrorism.
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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse – including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He’s such an American symbol, and such an anti-art symbol.
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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In America the biggest is the best.
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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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