Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
ROY LICHTENSTEINColor is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
ROY LICHTENSTEINI’m never drawing the object itself; I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
ROY LICHTENSTEINMy 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 LICHTENSTEINYou have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
ROY LICHTENSTEINUse the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
ROY LICHTENSTEINI’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
ROY LICHTENSTEINOutside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
ROY LICHTENSTEINI think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
ROY LICHTENSTEINI like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
ROY LICHTENSTEINYes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist.
ROY LICHTENSTEINMy 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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINAll my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
ROY LICHTENSTEINThere 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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINThe 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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINUsually 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 LICHTENSTEINAs long as the marks are related to one another, there is unity. Unity in the work itself depends on unity of the artist’s vision.
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