My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.
ROY LICHTENSTEINUse the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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 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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In America the biggest is the best.
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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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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 the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it’s what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, it won’t be American; it will be universal.
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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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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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Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
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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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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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Pop Art is industrial painting.
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I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
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