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 LICHTENSTEINI’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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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 its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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There are certain things that are usable, forceful, and vital about commercial art. We’re using those things – but we’re not really advocating stupidity, international teenagerism, and terrorism.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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 dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.
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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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In America the biggest is the best.
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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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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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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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