The U.S. museums weren't looking at my paintings at all - they hated them, irredeemably. People metaphorically threw up when they saw my work! They thought I was enlarging comics, or just copying them. — 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
