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 LICHTENSTEINYeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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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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In America the biggest is the best.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out 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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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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I don’t think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.
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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.
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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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