All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
ROY LICHTENSTEINI like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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People mistake the character of line for the character of art. But it’s really the position of line that’s important, or the position of anything, any contrast, not the character of it.
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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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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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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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 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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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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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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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.
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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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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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