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.
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.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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My 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.
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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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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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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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I 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.
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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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And I dont really want it to carry one. Im not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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As 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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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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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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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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