We like to think of industrialization as being despicable.
ROY LICHTENSTEINI take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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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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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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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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A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse – including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He’s such an American symbol, and such an anti-art symbol.
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Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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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.
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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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