Roy Lichtenstein Quotes

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

I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.

You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.

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.

Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.

As long as the marks are related to one another, there is unity. Unity in the work itself depends on unity of the artist’s vision.

You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.

Organized perception is what art is all about.

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, it’s not Le Corbusier.

I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it’s what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, it won’t be American; it will be universal.