Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
ROY LICHTENSTEINThe 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.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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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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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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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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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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There are certain things that are usable, forceful, and vital about commercial art. We’re using those things – but we’re not really advocating stupidity, international teenagerism, and terrorism.
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My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read that way….
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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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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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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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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