Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
ROY LICHTENSTEINI like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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I don’t think that I’m over his influence but they probably don’t look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.
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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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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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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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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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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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In America the biggest is the best.
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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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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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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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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Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist.
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People mistake the character of line for the character of art. But it’s really the position of line that’s important, or the position of anything, any contrast, not the character of it.
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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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