black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

Roy Lichtenstein

Related Topics

Color Consistency Hard Painting Trying Very

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Artist Big Break Know Long Mind Thinking Tradition
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Country Living Mcdonalds People Peron School Thing World
I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Kind Know Most Painter People Ridiculous Thinking
I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Architecture Art Do Nothing Pretend
What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Antisensitivity Art Civilization Impregnate Interest Modern Paint Thinking
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Art Itself Looks Paint Pop Something World
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Basket Interest Make Matter Picnic Prefer Something Strip Subject Suppose Terribly
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Always Away Cartoon Done Influence Painting Picasso Start Such Thing
Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Contrast Organisation Painting Position Stem
I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Cliche Differences Form Make Monument Organize Trying
I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Between Cliched Fact Rigid Seem Tension Think Way
Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Anything Expressionist Next Normal Oddities Painting Sometimes Strange Think Thinking Year
Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Best Colour Each Place Use Worst
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Influence Look Probably Thinking
You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Hard Idea People Pretty Reality Think
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Basket Gas Interest Interesting Picnic Pump Sign Strip Suppose Tree

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes