I wasn't sure pop art or my work would last more than six months. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Outside is the world; it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Something terrible can happen in my life, but I wouldn't put it in my art. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Actually, I love the Abstract Expressionists - or I like the ones I like, anyway. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Picasso's sculpture has incredible strength combined with a lack of pomposity. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I drew as a child, they tell me. I can vaguely remember doing it. And then I drew again in the late… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then,… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I thought art was a sort of romantic life, or I don't know what I thought art was like. But I learned… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse - including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He's such an American symbol,… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I don't think that my art isn't serious. I think the subjects are not serious, or my treatments of the subjects are… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think its the tension between what seems… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I don't know why you'd want to say your work comes from nature, because art is related to perception, not nature. All… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
The big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I was at Rutgers University, and that was a center for Fluxus in a way. But it wasn't what I was interested… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
When I was going to school and under the influence of Abstract Expressionism, I believed that if you had a give-and-take rapport… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know? — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him - or de Kooning or Still. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Everybody has called Pop Art 'American' painting, but it's actually industrial painting. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I don't think there is any question that Picasso is the greatest figure of the 20th century. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I think art was the one thing my high school didn't give. And I think that was probably one reason why I was interested… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him - or de Kooning or Still. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
When I started to do these Pop paintings seriously, I used all these other paintings - the abstract ones - as mats. I was… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I dont really want it to carry one. Im not interested… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
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… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
