I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
ROY LICHTENSTEINWhat interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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In America the biggest is the best.
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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.
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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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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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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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I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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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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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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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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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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