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…

— Roy Lichtenstein

In America the biggest is the best.

— Roy Lichtenstein

Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him - or de Kooning or Still.

— Roy Lichtenstein

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

— Roy Lichtenstein

I think you go nuts when you get older.

— 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…

— Roy Lichtenstein

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was…

— Roy Lichtenstein

When I started to do these Pop paintings seriously, I used all these other paintings - the abstract ones - as mats.…

— Roy Lichtenstein

Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I dont really want it to carry one. Im…

— 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…

— 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…

— Roy Lichtenstein

What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely…

— Roy Lichtenstein

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

— Roy Lichtenstein

Everybody has called Pop Art 'American' painting, but it's actually industrial painting.

— Roy Lichtenstein

Actually, I love the Abstract Expressionists - or I like the ones I like, anyway.

— Roy Lichtenstein

I don't think there is any question that Picasso is the greatest figure of the 20th century.

— Roy Lichtenstein

I drew as a child, they tell me. I can vaguely remember doing it. And then I drew again in the late…

— Roy Lichtenstein

But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then,…

— Roy Lichtenstein

I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it…

— Roy Lichtenstein

We like to think of industrialization as being despicable. I don't really know what to make of it. There's something terribly brittle…

— Roy Lichtenstein

Outside is the world; it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world.

— Roy Lichtenstein

Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle,…

— Roy Lichtenstein

People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn't. It's a convention.

— Roy Lichtenstein

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

My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is,…

— Roy Lichtenstein