The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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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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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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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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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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 take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.
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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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In America the biggest is the best.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle about it. 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.
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