Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
ROY LICHTENSTEINI think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it’s what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, it won’t be American; it will be universal.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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 the colors around it and what it will really look like. It’s only a guess at the beginning, and then I try to refine it.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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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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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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There must be something about art… almost all cultures have done art. It’s a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.
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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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We’re not living in a school-of-Paris world, you know, and the things we really see in America are like this. It’s McDonald’s, it’s not Le Corbusier.
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I was at Rutgers University, and that was a center for Fluxus in a way. But it wasn’t what I was interested in.
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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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You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don’t look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist.
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