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You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
Roy Lichtenstein
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Roy Lichtenstein
Age: 73 †
Born: 1923
Born: October 27
Died: 1997
Died: September 29
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Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
Roy Lichtenstein
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
I was at Rutgers University, and that was a center for Fluxus in a way. But it wasn't what I was interested in. 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
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
Roy Lichtenstein
Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. 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
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
Organized perception is what art is all about.
Roy Lichtenstein
I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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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.... 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.
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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.
Roy Lichtenstein
Outside is the world it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
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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. 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
All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
Roy Lichtenstein
Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit.
Roy Lichtenstein
In America the biggest is the best.
Roy Lichtenstein
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
There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.
Roy Lichtenstein
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
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
Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
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