black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Related Topics

Around Color Draw Drawing Gesture Guess Hard Mind Panting Size

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you’re trying to make.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Almost Certain Consistency Depend Field Generalization Hold Make Modulation Nothing Say Statement Try
Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Art Aspect Commercial Consider Interest Normally Thinking Way Worst
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
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

Change Draw Drawing Making Out Think Usually Want Work
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 LICHTENSTEIN

Artist Between Cartoon Country Definitely May People Person Relationship Understood
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Art Country Deal Force Met People Person Talent Work World
I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Kind Know Most Painter People Ridiculous Thinking
Pop Art is industrial painting.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Art Country Industrial Painting Pop Thinking
Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Art Look Out Outside Pop World
Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Art Carries Message Our Really Social Sure Trying World
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
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 LICHTENSTEIN

Abstract Another Art Even Everybody Know Most People Purpose Understand
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 LICHTENSTEIN

Architect Architecture Art Form Kind Result Think Thinking
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

Being Five Forget Kind Look Now Oddity People Some Thirty Years
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

Anything Better Carry Interested Matter Really Society Subject Teach Want Way
Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Color Crucial Hard Paint Talk
I was at Rutgers University, and that was a center for Fluxus in a way. But it wasn’t what I was interested in.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Art Center Country Interest University Way
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 LICHTENSTEIN

Advocating Certain Commercial Forceful International Teenagerism Really Stupidity Terrorism Thing Usable Vital
I’m never drawing the object itself; I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Crystalized Depiction Drawing Itself Kind Object Symbol
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Another Artist Depend Itself Long Mark Relate Unity Vision
My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read that way….
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Art Character Commercial Emotion Feeling Human Mistake Sanitize Sanitizing Symbolic Work
All of it had an impact – as did happenings – because I could see that art was changing from expressionism, which I was doing at the time, or thought I was doing. But it wasn’t the direction I really wanted to go.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

All Change Direction Expression Happen Impact Thought Time Want
Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Art Creative Education Form Plain Transform
I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Always Art Difference Drawing Mark One Want
The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Actual Admire Apparently Paradied Thing
I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Architecture Art Do Nothing Pretend
People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn’t. It’s a convention.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Actual Convention Course Look People Perspective Point Think Thinking Two

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes