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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINMy 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.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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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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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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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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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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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there’s another purpose to 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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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn’t. It’s a convention.
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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.
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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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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