Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
ROY LICHTENSTEINPop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
ROY LICHTENSTEINEverybody 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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINI dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
ROY LICHTENSTEINI 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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINAs 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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINOutside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
ROY LICHTENSTEINAll 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 LICHTENSTEINI don’t really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle about it. 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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINI’m never drawing the object itself; I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
ROY LICHTENSTEINPicasso’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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINIm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
ROY LICHTENSTEINThere is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you’re trying to make.
ROY LICHTENSTEINYou know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
ROY LICHTENSTEINAnd I dont really want it to carry one. Im not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.
ROY LICHTENSTEINYou have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
ROY LICHTENSTEINI’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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