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 LICHTENSTEINColor is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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I was at Rutgers University, and that was a center for Fluxus in a way. But it wasn’t what I was interested in.
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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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Everybody 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.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don’t look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.
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The big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all the traditions- all the other so-called rules, because they are stylistic.. and most are not true.
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I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.
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You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
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I don’t really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle about it. 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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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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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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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit.
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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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There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you’re trying to make.
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