I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.
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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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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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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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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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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In America the biggest is the best.
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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 all the colors around it and what it will really look like.
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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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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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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The big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all the traditions- all the other so-called rules, because they are stylistic.. and most are not true.
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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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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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