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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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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But 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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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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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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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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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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I’m never drawing the object itself; I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
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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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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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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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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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