Roy Lichtenstein Quotes

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Roy Lichtenstein

Profession : Artist

Birth : October 27, 1923

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

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 in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.

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'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other people saw things.

Roy Lichtenstein

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

Roy Lichtenstein

I think we're much smarter than we were. 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 to it.

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 modern painting?'

Roy Lichtenstein

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

Roy Lichtenstein

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 even in the early Disney.

Roy Lichtenstein

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 for and want to make changes.

Roy Lichtenstein

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 the colors around it and what it will really look like.

Roy Lichtenstein

In America the biggest is the best.

Roy Lichtenstein

I'm trying to make paintings like giant musical chords, with a polyphony of colours that is nuts but works.

Roy Lichtenstein

I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.

Roy Lichtenstein

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

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 being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this.

Roy Lichtenstein

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

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 about it.

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 Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.

Roy Lichtenstein

Making something good and saying something brilliant are not two things. When you make your own statement, there is a higher energy level, and you do better painting.

Roy Lichtenstein