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 LICHTENSTEINI don’t really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle about it. 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.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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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.
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We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
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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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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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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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.
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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.
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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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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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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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