Roy Lichtenstein

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

— Roy Lichtenstein

I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.

— Roy Lichtenstein

I think you go nuts when you get older.

— Roy Lichtenstein

I wasn't sure pop art or my work would last more than six months.

— Roy Lichtenstein

In America the biggest is the best.

— Roy Lichtenstein

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

— Roy Lichtenstein

My work isn't about form. It's about seeing.

— Roy Lichtenstein

The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire,

— Roy Lichtenstein

The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is…

— Roy Lichtenstein

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

— Roy Lichtenstein

When I have used cartoon images, I've used them ironically to raise the question, 'Why would anyone want to do this with…

— 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

I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.

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

— Roy Lichtenstein

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

— 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

There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it…

— 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

We're not living in a school-of-Paris world, you know, and the things we really see in America are like this. It's McDonald's,…

— Roy Lichtenstein

My work isn't about form. It's about seeing. I'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other…

— Roy Lichtenstein

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

— Roy Lichtenstein

Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am…

— 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

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

— Roy Lichtenstein

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

— Roy Lichtenstein

The big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all…

— Roy Lichtenstein

My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read…

— Roy Lichtenstein

I think there's the apparent lack of subtlety and sort of make-believe anti-sensibility connected with American art. I think this is a…

— Roy Lichtenstein

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

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

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

Organized perception is what art is all about.

— Roy Lichtenstein

I've never done an anguished painting.

— Roy Lichtenstein

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

— 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

All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.

— Roy Lichtenstein

Something terrible can happen in my life, but I wouldn't put it in my art.

— Roy Lichtenstein