There 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 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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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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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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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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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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People mistake the character of line for the character of art. But it’s really the position of line that’s important, or the position of anything, any contrast, not the character of it.
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Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don’t really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don’t think you could do this.
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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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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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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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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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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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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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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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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