I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
ROY LICHTENSTEINOutside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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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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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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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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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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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 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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But 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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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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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.
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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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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 all the colors around it and what it will really look like.
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The big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all the traditions- all the other so-called rules, because they are stylistic.. and most are not true.
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