All of it had an impact – as did happenings – because I could see that art was changing from expressionism, which I was doing at the time, or thought I was doing. But it wasn’t the direction I really wanted to go.
ROY LICHTENSTEINThe things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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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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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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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Picasso’s always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.
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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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But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.
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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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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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In America the biggest is the best.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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And I dont really want it to carry one. Im not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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