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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINWe’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.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.
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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk 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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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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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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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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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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In America the biggest is the best.
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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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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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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