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 LICHTENSTEINYou know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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And 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.
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My direction is very anti-contemplative. If you thought I was for commercial products, you’d think there was no irony. The irony isn’t meant to be an ironic comment on our society, exactly.
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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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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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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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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 all the colors around it and what it will really look like.
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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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My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read that way….
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As 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.
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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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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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