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.
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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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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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There are certain things that are usable, forceful, and vital about commercial art. We’re using those things – but we’re not really advocating stupidity, international teenagerism, and terrorism.
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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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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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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 like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there’s another purpose to it.
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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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A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse – including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He’s such an American symbol, and such an anti-art symbol.
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