Roy Lichtenstein Quotes

Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.

Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.

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

All of it had an impact – as did happenings – because I could see that art was changing from expressionism, which I was doing at the time, or thought I was doing. But it wasn’t the direction I really wanted to go.

Pop Art is industrial painting.

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

There are certain things that are usable, forceful, and vital about commercial art. We’re using those things – but we’re not really advocating stupidity, international teenagerism, and terrorism.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

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.

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.