There must be something about art… almost all cultures have done art. It’s a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.
ROY LICHTENSTEINI’m never drawing the object itself; I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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Picasso’s always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.
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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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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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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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I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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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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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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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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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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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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