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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINAll my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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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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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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My work isn’t about form. It’s about seeing. I’m excited about seeing things, and I’m interested in the way I think other people see things.
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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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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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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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In America the biggest is the best.
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My 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.
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I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.
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