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Best 59 Quotes by Roy Lichtenstein – Page 2 of 2

“Organized perception is what art is all about.”

“Outside is the world; it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world.”

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

“People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn't. It's a convention.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Picasso's sculpture has incredible strength combined with a lack of pomposity.”

“Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him – or de Kooning or Still.”

“Pop Art is industrial painting. 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.”

“Something terrible can happen in my life, but I wouldn't put it in my art.”

“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. 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.”

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

“The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.”

“The U.S. museums weren't looking at my paintings at all – they hated them, irredeemably. People metaphorically threw up when they saw my work! They thought I was enlarging comics, or just copying them.”

“There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Miró and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.”

“There must be something about art. Almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.”

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“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. 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. 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.”

“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.”

“What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward – neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.”

“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?”

“When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.”

“When I started to do these Pop paintings seriously, I used all these other paintings – the abstract ones – as mats. I was painting in the bedroom, and I put them on the floor so I wouldn't get paint on the floor. They got destroyed.”

“When I was going to school and under the influence of Abstract Expressionism, I believed that if you had a give-and-take rapport with your work that it would be you, and that would be all that was required. It would be honest, and the core of your personality would come out if you responded to position and contrasts in your work.”

Lichtenstein in process Quotes

“I'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it.”

Lichtenstein in process

“My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.”

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New Again Quotes

“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.”

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“I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?”

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Painters on Painting Quotes

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

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