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 LICHTENSTEINYou have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.
More Roy Lichtenstein Quotes
-
-
Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any.
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 -
I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
The big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all the traditions- all the other so-called rules, because they are stylistic.. and most are not true.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
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.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
Pop Art is industrial painting.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse – including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He’s such an American symbol, and such an anti-art symbol.
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 -
What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
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 in.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN -
You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN