I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it’s what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, it won’t be American; it will be universal.
ROY LICHTENSTEINI think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it’s what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, it won’t be American; it will be universal.
ROY LICHTENSTEINPersonally, 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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINThe things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
ROY LICHTENSTEINPop Art is industrial painting.
ROY LICHTENSTEINBut 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 LICHTENSTEINBut 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 LICHTENSTEINI 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 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 LICHTENSTEINI 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 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.
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINPeople think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn’t. It’s a convention.
ROY LICHTENSTEINYou have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
ROY LICHTENSTEINI take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.
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 LICHTENSTEINI think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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