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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINBut 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.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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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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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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I’m never drawing the object itself; I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
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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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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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In America the biggest is the best.
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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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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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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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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But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.
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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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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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