Roy Lichtenstein Quotes

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• I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't.
• Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a…
• Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
• I'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
• 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…
• Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
• I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
• Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I dont really want it to carry one. Im not interested in…
• Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think its the tension between what seems to be so…
• The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire,
• 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…
• Pop Art is industrial painting. I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it's what all the world will soon become.…
• 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…
• All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
• I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
• 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…
• Organized perception is what art is all about.
• 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…
• We like to think of industrialization as being despicable. I don't really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle about it. I…
• What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic,…

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