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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINThe things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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 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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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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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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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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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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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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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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