Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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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.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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Organized perception is what art is all about.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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In America the biggest is the best.
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I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward – neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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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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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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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.
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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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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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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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There are certain things that are usable, forceful, and vital about commercial art. We’re using those things – but we’re not really advocating stupidity, international teenagerism, and terrorism.
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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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