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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINMy direction is very anti-contemplative. If you thought I was for commercial products, you’d think there was no irony. The irony isn’t meant to be an ironic comment on our society, exactly.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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I was at Rutgers University, and that was a center for Fluxus in a way. But it wasn’t what I was interested in.
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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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Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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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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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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People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn’t. It’s a convention.
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When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.
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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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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.
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