black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Related Topics

Art Character Commercial Emotion Feeling Human Mistake Sanitize Sanitizing Symbolic Work

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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

Around Beginning Color Draw Four Guess Kind Mind Painting Refine
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Art Itself Looks Paint Pop Something World
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Alive Animal Art Culture Keep Look Refining Sense Something
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Anything Character Contrast Important Line People Position
Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Best Colour Each Place Use Worst
Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Color Consistency Hard Painting Trying Very
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Anti Commercial Contemplative Direction Ironic Irony Product Think Thinking
Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Contrast Organisation Painting Position Stem
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

Another Artist Depend Itself Long Mark Relate Unity Vision
I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Architecture Art Do Nothing Pretend
What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Antisensitivity Art Civilization Impregnate Interest Modern Paint Thinking
Organized perception is what art is all about.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Art Organized Perception
People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn’t. It’s a convention.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Actual Convention Course Look People Perspective Point Think Thinking Two
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

Influence Look Probably Thinking
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Basket Gas Interest Interesting Picnic Pump Sign Strip Suppose Tree
We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Art Being Despicable Industrialization Interesting Like Thing Thinking

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes