My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.
ROY LICHTENSTEINI think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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 don’t think that I’m over his influence but they probably don’t look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.
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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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Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist.
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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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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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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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 like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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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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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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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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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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