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 LICHTENSTEINOutside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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My 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.
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A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse – including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He’s such an American symbol, and such an anti-art symbol.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it’s what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, it won’t be American; it will be universal.
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I don’t think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.
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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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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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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.
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.
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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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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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