Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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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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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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I don’t think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.
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I don’t really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle about it. 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.
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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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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 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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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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 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.
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