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 LICHTENSTEINI 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.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
-
-
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 -
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
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.
ROY 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 LICHTENSTEIN -
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 -
Pop Art is industrial painting.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
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 -
In America the biggest is the best.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
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 the colors around it and what it will really look like. It’s only a guess at the beginning, and then I try to refine it.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
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 LICHTENSTEIN -
I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
ROY LICHTENSTEIN






