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 all the colors around it and what it will really look like.
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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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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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 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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When 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.
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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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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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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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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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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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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don’t look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.
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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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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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All of it had an impact – as did happenings – because I could see that art was changing from expressionism, which I was doing at the time, or thought I was doing. But it wasn’t the direction I really wanted to go.
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