Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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 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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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
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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’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 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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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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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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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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Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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I don’t think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.
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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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