My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world. Roy Lichtenstein More Quotes by Roy Lichtenstein More Quotes From Roy Lichtenstein 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 drawing color mind 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. Roy Lichtenstein reality ideas thinking There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney. Roy Lichtenstein understood may people 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 painting mind trying 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 warhol done artist 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. Roy Lichtenstein art 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 experience learning artist art 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 understand think people art Everybody has called Pop Art 'American' painting, but it's actually industrial painting. Roy Lichtenstein industrial american painting art 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 bedroom painting paint 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 better good you painting Actually, I love the Abstract Expressionists - or I like the ones I like, anyway. Roy Lichtenstein anyway like abstract love I thought art was a sort of romantic life, or I don't know what I thought art was like. But I learned practically everything I know from Ohio State. And I'm really glad I went. Roy Lichtenstein thought romantic life art 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 question painting cartoon want I don't know why you'd want to say your work comes from nature, because art is related to perception, not nature. All abstract artists try to tell you that what they do comes from nature, and I'm always trying to tell you that what I do is completely abstract. We're both saying something we want to be true. Roy Lichtenstein you nature work art I think you go nuts when you get older. Roy Lichtenstein go think you nuts I'm trying to make paintings like giant musical chords, with a polyphony of colours that is nuts but works. Roy Lichtenstein make like nuts trying The U.S. museums weren't looking at my paintings at all - they hated them, irredeemably. People metaphorically threw up when they saw my work! They thought I was enlarging comics, or just copying them. Roy Lichtenstein looking thought work people I've never done an anguished painting. Roy Lichtenstein anguished never painting done Something terrible can happen in my life, but I wouldn't put it in my art. Roy Lichtenstein happen my-life life art