I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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In America the biggest is the best.
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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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 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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Personally, 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.
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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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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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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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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 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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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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Yeah, 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.
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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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