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I dont have big anxieties. I ...

I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.

Roy Lichtenstein 63 quotes

What interests me is to paint...

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, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward - neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

Roy Lichtenstein 63 quotes

There must be something about...

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 63 quotes

Color is crucial in painting,...

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 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 63 quotes

Usually I begin things throug...

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. 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 63 quotes

I kind of do the drawing with...

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 63 quotes

I don't think that my art isn...

I don't think that my art isn't serious. I think the subjects are not serious, or my treatments of the subjects are not serious. But then, I'm also putting down subject, because like the abstract expressionists, I don't think the subject is important.

Roy Lichtenstein 63 quotes

Personally, I feel that in my...

Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this.

Roy Lichtenstein 63 quotes

I'm excited about seeing thin...

I'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other people saw things.

Roy Lichtenstein 63 quotes

Pop Art is industrial paintin...

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. Europe will be the same way, soon, it won't be American; it will be universal.

Roy Lichtenstein 63 quotes

The big tradition, I think, i...

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 63 quotes

I'd always wanted to know the...

I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't.

Roy Lichtenstein 63 quotes

We like to think of industria...

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 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. 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 63 quotes

Everybody knows that abstract...

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 63 quotes

Use the worst colour you can ...

Use the worst colour you can find in each place - it usually is the best.

Roy Lichtenstein 63 quotes

I don't think of form as a ki...

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 63 quotes

My work sanitizes it (emotion...

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.

Roy Lichtenstein 63 quotes

A number of artists have done ...

A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse - including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He's such an American symbol, and such an anti-art symbol.

Roy Lichtenstein 63 quotes

My direction is very anti-cont...

My direction is very anti-contemplative. If you thought I was for commercial products, you'd think there was no irony. The irony isn't meant to be an ironic comment on our society, exactly.

Roy Lichtenstein 63 quotes

We're not living in a school-...

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 63 quotes

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