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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINI dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there’s another purpose to it.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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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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Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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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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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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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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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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