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Roy Lichtenstein - From the Abstraction category:
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)
Roy Lichtenstein - From the Anxiety category:
I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting. (Roy Lichtenstein)
Roy Lichtenstein - From the Beginning category:
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)
Roy Lichtenstein - From the Change category:
Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit. (Roy Lichtenstein)
Roy Lichtenstein - From the Collage category:
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 wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it. (Roy Lichtenstein)
Roy Lichtenstein - From the Colour category:
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 generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you're trying to make. (Roy Lichtenstein)
Roy Lichtenstein - From the Communication category:
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)
Roy Lichtenstein - From the Composition category:
You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard. (Roy Lichtenstein)
Roy Lichtenstein - From the Drawing category:
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)
Roy Lichtenstein - From the Eccentricity category:
Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty-five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity. (Roy Lichtenstein)
Roy Lichtenstein - From the Ego category:
I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me. (Roy Lichtenstein)
Roy Lichtenstein - From the Emotion category:
I wanted my work 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)
Roy Lichtenstein - From the Form category:
Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms. (Roy Lichtenstein)
Roy Lichtenstein - From the Influence category:
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 pictures. (Roy Lichtenstein)
Roy Lichtenstein - From the Influence category:
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)
Roy Lichtenstein - From the Interest category:
I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way. (Roy Lichtenstein)
Roy Lichtenstein - From the Meaning category:
I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. (Roy Lichtenstein)
Roy Lichtenstein - From the Modernism category:
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. (Roy Lichtenstein)
Roy Lichtenstein - From the Painting category:
I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know? (Roy Lichtenstein)
Roy Lichtenstein - From the Perspective category:
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)
Roy Lichtenstein - From the Seeing category:
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 people see things. (Roy Lichtenstein)
Roy Lichtenstein - From the Standards category:
In America, the biggest is the best. (Roy Lichtenstein)
Roy Lichtenstein - From the Subject category:
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)
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