Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
ROY LICHTENSTEINEverybody 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.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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I’m never drawing the object itself; I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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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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Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.
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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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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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My work isn’t about form. It’s about seeing. I’m excited about seeing things, and I’m interested in the way I think other people see things.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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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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My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read that way….
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But 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.
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