All Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
- I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't. Always Wanted
- Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a… Almost Nothing
- Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms. Art
- I'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it. Crystallized
- My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the… Areas
- Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. Art
- I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting. Anxieties
- Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I dont really want it to carry one. Im not interested in… Any
- Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think its the tension between what seems to be so… Art
- The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire, Actually Admire
- The big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all the traditions- all… All
- Pop Art is industrial painting. I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it's what all the world will soon become.… All
- Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose… Abstract
- All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons. All
- I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me. Architecture
- I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense… Architecture
- Organized perception is what art is all about. All
- 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… Influence
- We like to think of industrialization as being despicable. I don't really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle about it. I… Advocating
- What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic,… All
- There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related… Cartooning
- In America the biggest is the best. America
- 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… Allow
- 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… Certain
- 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… All