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Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein
American Artist
Born: Oct 27, 1923
Died: Sep 29, 1997
Art Painting People Think Work You
Related authors: Andy Warhol Jackson Pollock Jean-Michel Basquiat Jeff Koons Kehinde Wiley Keith Haring Yoko Ono
I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me. Roy Lichtenstein
Art Me Nothing Pretend Like
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
Art Learning Experience Made Whatever Importance Learning Experience Doing Artist Being Where Process
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
Abstract Art Art People Think Everybody Purpose Abstract Smarter Like Know Most Knows Another Understand Were Than May Much Even
My work isn't about form. It's about seeing. Roy Lichtenstein
Work Seeing About Form
When I started to do these Pop paintings seriously, I used all these other paintings - the abstract ones - as mats. I was painting in the bedroom, and I put them on the floor so I wouldn't get paint on the floor. They got destroyed. Roy Lichtenstein
Seriously Painting Other Destroyed Put Abstract Got Bedroom Get Them Pop Used Paint Paintings Floor Started
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
Saying Good You Better Brilliant Own Energy Painting Statement Something Something Good Higher Make Making Energy Level Your Level Things Two
Actually, I love the Abstract Expressionists - or I like the ones I like, anyway. Roy Lichtenstein
Love Abstract Like Anyway Actually
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
Painting Would Cartoon Question Ironically Modern Want Anyone Them Used Why Images Raise
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
Matter Signs Sit Tree Pump Strips Would Rather Picnic Suppose Comic Still Comic Strips Subject Subject Matter Than Interesting Prefer Gas Basket
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
Before Painting Paper Collage Drawing Would Something Put Fairly Sure Printed Committed Wanted Dots Then Worked Really Certain Certain Things Painted Things
I've never done an anguished painting. Roy Lichtenstein
Painting Anguished Never Done
Something terrible can happen in my life, but I wouldn't put it in my art. Roy Lichtenstein
Life Art My Life Something Put Terrible Happen
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
Work You Own Believe Think My Own Could Impersonal Feel Look Am Being Wanted Personally Really Programmed
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
Looking Think Would Thrown Picasso Over Pictures Like Look Himself His Up Influence
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
Mind Will Painting Guess Drawing Kind Color Colors Like Look Around Very Size Really Hard
Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence. Roy Lichtenstein
Myself Thought Cartoon Cartoons Picasso Almost Always Were Been His Huge Huge Influence Done Getting Influence Rid Paintings Even Away Started
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
You Strange People Sometimes Painting Thinking Thirty Thirty-Five Our Out Has-Been Kind Some Know Look How Were Oddity Been Years Normal Yes Five Forget Anything Which Next Now Expressionist Started
I'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other people saw things. Roy Lichtenstein
People Think Other Saw Way Seeing About Excited Interested Things
I drew as a child, they tell me. I can vaguely remember doing it. And then I drew again in the late years at high school. Roy Lichtenstein
Me Remember School Late Tell High High School Drew Doing Years Child Again Then Vaguely
Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him - or de Kooning or Still. Roy Lichtenstein
Something Invented No-One Like Him Still Really Painted

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