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But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.
- Roy Lichtenstein
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I don't think there is any question that Picasso is the greatest figure of the 20th century.
- Roy Lichtenstein
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Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him - or de Kooning or Still.
- Roy Lichtenstein
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Everybody has called Pop Art 'American' painting, but it's actually industrial painting.
- Roy Lichtenstein
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I think we're much smarter than we were. 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
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In America the biggest is the best.
- Roy Lichtenstein
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I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.
- Roy Lichtenstein
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Making something good and saying something brilliant are not two things. When you make your own statement, there is a higher energy level, and you do better painting.
- Roy Lichtenstein
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#Own
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I wasn't sure pop art or my work would last more than six months.
- Roy Lichtenstein
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I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.
- Roy Lichtenstein
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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
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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
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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
- Roy Lichtenstein
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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
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When I have used cartoon images, I've used them ironically to raise the question, 'Why would anyone want to do this with modern painting?'
- Roy Lichtenstein
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I think you go nuts when you get older.
- Roy Lichtenstein
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My work isn't about form. It's about seeing.
- Roy Lichtenstein
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I'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other people saw things.
- Roy Lichtenstein
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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
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#Matter
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#Tree
The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is being made.
- Roy Lichtenstein
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#Experience
#Learning
#Process
I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way.
- Roy Lichtenstein
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Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
- Roy Lichtenstein
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
- Roy Lichtenstein
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Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
- Roy Lichtenstein
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