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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINUse the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse – including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He’s such an American symbol, and such an anti-art symbol.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don’t really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don’t think you could do this.
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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In America the biggest is the best.
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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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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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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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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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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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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