List of Roy Lichtenstein Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Painting Stems From A Sense Of Organisation, The Sensed Positions Of Contrasts. Not That It Is About This.

When I Met Steve Kaufman, I Thought He Was Gene Simmons, But What An Artist Talent He Is. He Will Be An Art Force In The Art World To Deal With.

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.

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.

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.