black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.

Roy Lichtenstein

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 LICHTENSTEIN

All Change Direction Expression Happen Impact Thought Time Want
I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Anxiety Art Interest Interesting More Much
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Around Color Draw Drawing Gesture Guess Hard Mind Panting Size
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Around Beginning Color Draw Four Guess Kind Mind Painting Refine
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Interest People See Thing Thinking Vision Work
There must be something about art… almost all cultures have done art. It’s a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Alive Animal Art Culture Keep Look Refining Sense Something
We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Art Being Despicable Industrialization Interesting Like Thing Thinking
Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Art Look Out Outside Pop World
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Influence Look Probably Thinking
I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Between Cliched Fact Rigid Seem Tension Think Way
I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Kind Know Most Painter People Ridiculous Thinking
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Change Draw Drawing Making Out Think Usually Want Work
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 LICHTENSTEIN

Basket Gas Interest Interesting Picnic Pump Sign Strip Suppose Tree
You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Hard Idea People Pretty Reality Think
Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Color Crucial Hard Paint Talk
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Anything Character Contrast Important Line People Position

All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes