I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.
ROY LICHTENSTEINYes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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In America the biggest is the best.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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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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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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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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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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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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I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward – neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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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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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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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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