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 LICHTENSTEINAll my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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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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My direction is very anti-contemplative. If you thought I was for commercial products, you’d think there was no irony. The irony isn’t meant to be an ironic comment on our society, exactly.
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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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In America the biggest is the best.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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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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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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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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You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don’t look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.
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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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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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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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