As long as the marks are related to one another, there is unity. Unity in the work itself depends on unity of the artist’s vision.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN
All of it had an impact – as did happenings – because I could see that art was changing from expressionism, which I was doing at the time, or thought I was doing. But it wasn’t the direction I really wanted to go.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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As long as the marks are related to one another, there is unity. Unity in the work itself depends on unity of the artist’s vision.
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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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We’re not living in a school-of-Paris world, you know, and the things we really see in America are like this. It’s McDonald’s, it’s not Le Corbusier.
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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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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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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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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’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
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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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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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All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
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