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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones? ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#acquaintance #back #done #effort #embarrassment

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#blind #disbelief #founded #most #other

I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

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

— Roy Lichtenstein

#i think #kind #know #most #painters

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. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

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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

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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. ↗

— 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. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#color #colors #drawing #guess #hard

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

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