Roy Lichtenstein Quotes

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.

I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

I just find things that work and embellish them.

I wanted to do that again but, when I went to look for chants, I didn't want to do it in the exact same way.

I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

It's very important to understand that we never do the same thing twice; each of our projects is unique. We'll never do another 'Gates.' Each project is a unique image. We do not know in advance how the work will look. I do preparatory drawings, but they are only projections of our vision.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.

Our home, just like our garden, evolves. We experiment, try out different things and new colors until we feel content. Try to keep the metaphor of home as garden in your consciousness.

It's so important to work with material you can really mold and milk and create and evolve.

Give the composer time to experiment, time to try out ideas. Also, the time to fail. When the composer has very little time, the temptation is to reach for stock ideas - ideas they know will work and have worked in the past.

I certainly like to swing the pendulum and try new things and to do things that are different from the last thing that I did.

I always like to tweak things and push things forward.

What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

The fun for me is to mix it all up. I would actually like to do something as far away from what I've just done, just for my own personal joy and growth, for what I want to do.

I write a melody and then change it and change it until I get it the way I like it.

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

The video maker doesn't easily face a blank page. Because the videomaker can run it either any way, this way or the other way and erase it if they don't like it and so on.

Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation.