Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist.
ROY LICHTENSTEINWhen 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.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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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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There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you’re trying to make.
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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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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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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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