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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINColor is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.
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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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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.
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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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In America the biggest 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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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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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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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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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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