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.
ROY LICHTENSTEINPainting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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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 dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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In America the biggest is the best.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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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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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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The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
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When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.
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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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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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But 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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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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