Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
ROY LICHTENSTEINUse the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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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.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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There are certain things that are usable, forceful, and vital about commercial art. We’re using those things – but we’re not really advocating stupidity, international teenagerism, and terrorism.
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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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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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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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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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Picasso’s always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.
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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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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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In America the biggest is the best.
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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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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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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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