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.
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.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
-
-
Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward – neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read that way….
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
All 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 LICHTENSTEIN -
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN