Roy Lichtenstein on color
Roy Lichtenstein60 quotes“Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.”
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Pop Art is industrial painting.
Roy LichtensteinRoy Lichtenstein Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
Roy LichtensteinRoy Lichtenstein 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.
Roy LichtensteinRoy Lichtenstein Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
Roy LichtensteinRoy Lichtenstein 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.
Roy LichtensteinRoy Lichtenstein 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.
Roy LichtensteinRoy Lichtenstein I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
Roy LichtensteinRoy Lichtenstein 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.
Roy LichtensteinRoy Lichtenstein I’m never drawing the object itself; I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
Roy LichtensteinRoy Lichtenstein There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.
Roy LichtensteinRoy Lichtenstein 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.
Roy LichtensteinRoy Lichtenstein 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.
Roy LichtensteinRoy Lichtenstein 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.
Roy LichtensteinRoy Lichtenstein People mistake the character of line for the character of art. But it’s really the position of line that’s important, or the position of anything, any contrast, not the character of it.
Roy LichtensteinRoy Lichtenstein 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.
Roy LichtensteinRoy Lichtenstein 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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