American - Artist | October 27, 1923 - September 29, 1997
I'm trying to make paintings like giant musical chords, with a polyphony of colours that is nuts but works.
Roy Lichtenstein
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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.
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Actually, I love the Abstract Expressionists - or I like the ones I like, anyway.
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But 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.
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Something terrible can happen in my life, but I wouldn't put it in my art.
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I think you go nuts when you get older.
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I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.
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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.
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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.
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I've never done an anguished painting.
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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.
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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.
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