Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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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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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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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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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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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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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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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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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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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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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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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In America the biggest is the best.
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