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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINI dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
-
-
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
I don’t think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
Organized perception is what art is all about.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN