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Roy Lichtenstein was a renowned American artist known for his Pop Art style. His works often drew inspiration from comic books and advertisements, using bright colors and geometric shapes to reflect the charm of American mass culture. Lichtenstein's art has had a profound impact on the art world and is widely considered one of the most representative artists of the 20th century.

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“People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn't. It's a convention.”

People Thinking World Looks Two Courses Perspective Conventions

Author:Roy Lichtenstein

“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.”

People Thinking Way Humans Art Important Character Feelings Lines Emotion Mistake Position Contrast Symbolic Commercial Art

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“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.”

Thinking Irony Meant To Be Comment Ironic

Author:Roy Lichtenstein

“I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?”

People Thinking Knows Kind Ridiculous Painter

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“My work isn't about form. It's about seeing. I'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other people see things.”

People Thinking Way Form Vision Seeing Excited

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“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 rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.”

Thinking Way Art Facts Seems Worst Aspect Tension Cant Commercial Art

Author:Roy Lichtenstein

“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.”

Thinking Knows Mind Long Bigs Artist Vision Break Depends Tradition Mark Unity Related

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“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.”

Thinking World Way Art Painting Art Is Europe Universal Pops Pop Art

Book:Roy Lichtenstein: Exhibition 6 Jan.-4 Feb. 1968, Tate Gallery, London ...

Source: Roy Lichtenstein: Exhibition 6 Jan.-4 Feb. 1968, Tate Gallery, London ...

“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.”

Thinking Kind Art Form Results Position Architecture Realms Visuals Wholeness

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“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.”

Thinking Looks Influence Thrown

Author:Roy Lichtenstein

“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.”

“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.”

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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.”

Thinking Feels Believe Looks Wanted My Own

Author:Roy Lichtenstein

“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.”

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Book:Roy Lichtenstein: new paintings

Source: Roy Lichtenstein: new paintings

“You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.”

People Thinking Knows World Ideas Hard Reality No Idea Composition

Author:Roy Lichtenstein

About the Author

Born: October 27, 1923
Died: September 29, 1997
Known for: Artist
Quotes: 47

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