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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-lichtenstein/you-know-as-you-compose-music-you-re-just-off-in-your-own-world-you/)

[Roy Lichtenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-lichtenstein/)

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## More by Roy Lichtenstein

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-lichtenstein/i-think-art-was-the-one-thing-my-high-school-didn-t-give-and-i-think/)

[Roy Lichtenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-lichtenstein/)

> [In America the biggest is the best.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-lichtenstein/in-america-the-biggest-is-the-best/)

[Roy Lichtenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-lichtenstein/)

> [Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him - or de Kooning or Still.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-lichtenstein/pollock-really-invented-something-no-one-painted-like-him-or-de/)

[Roy Lichtenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-lichtenstein/)

> [Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-lichtenstein/pop-art-looks-out-into-the-world-it-doesn-t-look-like-a-painting-of/)

[Roy Lichtenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-lichtenstein/)

> [I think you go nuts when you get older.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-lichtenstein/i-think-you-go-nuts-when-you-get-older/)

[Roy Lichtenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-lichtenstein/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-lichtenstein/there-must-be-something-about-art-almost-all-cultures-have-done-art/)

[Roy Lichtenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-lichtenstein/)

> [But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-lichtenstein/but-when-i-worked-on-a-painting-i-would-do-it-from-a-drawing-but-i/)

[Roy Lichtenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-lichtenstein/)

> [When I started to do these Pop paintings seriously, I used all these other paintings - the abstract ones - as mats. I was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-lichtenstein/when-i-started-to-do-these-pop-paintings-seriously-i-used-all-these/)

[Roy Lichtenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-lichtenstein/)

> [Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I dont really want it to carry one. Im not interested…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-lichtenstein/im-not-really-sure-what-social-message-my-art-carries-if-any-and-i/)

[Roy Lichtenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-lichtenstein/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-lichtenstein/i-m-not-really-sure-what-social-message-my-art-carries-if-any-and-i/)

[Roy Lichtenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-lichtenstein/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-lichtenstein/my-direction-is-very-anti-contemplative-if-you-thought-i-was-for/)

[Roy Lichtenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-lichtenstein/)

> [What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-lichtenstein/what-interests-me-is-to-paint-the-kind-of-antisensitivity-that/)

[Roy Lichtenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-lichtenstein/)

> [I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-lichtenstein/i-think-that-most-people-think-painters-are-kind-of-ridiculous-you/)

[Roy Lichtenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-lichtenstein/)

> [Everybody has called Pop Art 'American' painting, but it's actually industrial painting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-lichtenstein/everybody-has-called-pop-art-american-painting-but-it-s-actually/)

[Roy Lichtenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-lichtenstein/)

> [Actually, I love the Abstract Expressionists - or I like the ones I like, anyway.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-lichtenstein/actually-i-love-the-abstract-expressionists-or-i-like-the-ones-i-like/)

[Roy Lichtenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-lichtenstein/)

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