I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
ROY LICHTENSTEINYes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don’t look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.
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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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There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you’re trying to make.
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Picasso’s always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.
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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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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 all the colors around it and what it will really look like.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit.
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Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don’t really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don’t think you could do this.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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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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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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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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