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81 Famous Pop Art Quotes By Famous Pop Artists Like Andy Warhol That will You Will Love.

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Pop Art was an Art movement that started in the 1960s and became famous in the 1960s and utilizes everyday images of famous people, objects, photos in newspapers, etc. It uses bold colors to make the pictures and paintings POP. Artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein popularized this movement with their famous paintings.

Here is some famous Pop Art Quotes to Inspire your Inner Artists by Famous Pop Artists.

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Famous Pop Art Quotes

Pop art Quotes Andy Warhol

  1. “Pop art is for everyone.” ― Andy Warhol
  2. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. Roy Lichtenstein
  3. I wasn’t sure pop art or my work would last more than six months. ― Roy Lichtenstein
  4. I’ve always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That’s what I’ve always done. ― Jeff Koons
  5. Everybody has called Pop Art ‘American’ painting, but it’s actually industrial painting. ― Roy Lichtenstein
  6. I never set out to be a groundbreaking artist in the sense of doing something that’s never been done before. I set out to make stuff that communicated quickly and effectively, playing off of advertising, pop art, and pop culture. ― Shepard Fairey
  7. Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable. ― Leonard Baskin
  8. “Pop art is the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive!” ― Robert Indiana
  9. “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.” ― Roy Lichtenstein
  10. “Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.” ― Grace Hartigan
  11. “Fashion wasn’t what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.” ― Andy Warhol
  12. “Don’t worry about mistakes. Making things out of mistakes, that’s creativity.” ― Peter Max
  13. “We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular – popular culture.” ― Jeffrey Deitch
  14. “Pop art is about liking things.” ― Andy Warhol
  15. “People should fall in love with their eyes closed.” ― Andy Warhol
  16. “Reality itself is steadily becoming more colored. Think of what factories were like, especially in Italy at the beginning of the 19th century, when industrialization was just beginning: gray, brown and smoky. Color didn’t exist. Today, instead, most everything is colored. The pipe running from the basement to the 12th floor is green because it carries steam. The one carrying electricity is red, and that with water is purple. Also, plastic colors have filled our homes, even revolutionized our taste. Pop art grew out of that and was possible because of this change in taste.” ― Michelangelo Antonioni
  17. Take an exhibit, in the days when we saw Pop art – Andy Warhol and all that – tomato soup cans, etc., and coming home, you saw everything like A. Warhol. ― Corita Kent
  18. There’s a famous artist, Ron English, in New York, that just, or Andy Warhol for that matter, that did pop art that terrorized society. And that’s, for the last like 10, 15 years, that’s all I wanted to do, is terrorize society and make them look into a mirror and see what the hell we have wrought. ― Al Jourgensen
  19. After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture. ― Jeffrey Deitch
  20. I find pop art really offensive because it’s taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can’t see it. ― Rebecca Sugar
  21. Andy Warhol defined Pop Art. ― Jeffrey Deitch
  22. I’m not interested in pop art. ― Billy Corgan
  23. Film is pop art. It’s not whether it’s auteur cinema or not; that’s a false distinction. Cinema is cinema. ― Denis Villeneuve
  24. I see no reason why the artistic world can’t absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can’t we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images? ― William S. Burroughs
  25. We’re a pop art band. Not a pop band. ― Chris Stein
  26. I don’t mean this, but I’m going to say it anyway. I don’t really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart. ― Twyla Tharp
  27. The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That’s the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I’ve been thinking about that a lot. ― Leslie Fiedler
  28. I collect candy packaging from around the world and believe it has the value of Pop Art. ― Dylan Lauren
  29. Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism. ― Jerry Saltz
  30. I’m the one who gave steroids to Pop art. James Rosenquist I don’t think geometric art is… I don’t like to call it that. I don’t think it’s any purer than pop art or anything else. It doesn’t have anything to do with purity. ― Donald Judd
  31. ‘Interview’ created indelible images of Pop Art that arrived on people’s doorsteps every month. ― Richard Phillips
  32. In ’68 I was 13 years old, so I was a child, but I felt a lot of excitement in listening to things, looking at the pop art coming over from America. My father was an art collector, and he was coming home with these strange pieces of art that weren’t exposed in museums. At the time, it was quite revolutionary, very adventurous. ― Ludovico Einaudi
  33. The Pop art I wound up doing came to me purely from ‘Mad’ comics. I loved the idea of doing fun stuff. I met an art dealer who wanted to show the work – that was in January 1962 – and that was the beginning for me. ― Peter Saul
  34. “The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second — comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators, Coke bottles. All the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried not to notice at all.” ― Andy Warhol
  35. “I am a pop artist, so my medium is public opinion and the world is my canvas.” ― Kanye West
  36. “Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there’s kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.” ― Don DeLillo
  37. “Only thanks to Pop Art, my painting has become understandable.” ― Domenico Gnoli
  38. “I’m really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts” ― Andy Warhol
  39. “There’s something retro about the pop culture references in the paintings, so I’d imagine it’s not as much a pop culture reference as a pop art reference.” ― Joe Bradley
  40. “By the late ’50s, something was happening in England, and it got to be quite exciting. The music world then started to explode with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. It was an incredible time with this mixture of independence in art, fashion, and the explosion of the pop sensibility. London was certainly at the center of it all for a few years. And as far as art is concerned, I think that sensibility of what was later called Pop art started in England even before America. And so I was lucky to be there.” ― Tony Shafrazi
  41. “When you stop wanting something, you get it.” ― Andy Warhol
  42. “I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in 1974 with a painting that consisted of 4,096 colour fields. Initially I was attracted by the typical Pop Art aestheticism of using standard colour-sample cards; I preferred the unartistic, tasteful and secular illustration of the different tones to the paintings of Albers, Bill, Calderara, Lohse, etc.” ― Gerhard Richter
  43. “I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I’m referencing American ’60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.” ― Christian Marclay
  44. “I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it’s as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill the medium. They’re printing the comics so small that most strips are just talking heads, and if you look back at the glory days of comic strips, you can see that they were showcases for some of the best pop art ever to come out.” ― Matt Groening
  45. “I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.” ~ Robert Indiana
  46. “No matter what genre of music you play when you rack up a couple years of experience, you have your own point of view no matter who it is that is coming in front of you whether it’s a pop artist or a country artist. Whoever.” ― Harry Connick, Jr.
  47. “I like adding little elements into the final mix. I’m more fond of the ’70s glam than ’80s. I have that style of vocals… there are a lot of pop artists who are using the glam vibe in their music. I’m part of that wave.” ― Adam Lambert
  48. “Reality is what you can get away with.” ― Robert Anton Wilson
  49. “The first colour charts were unsystematic. They were based directly on commercial colour samples. They were still related to Pop Art. In the canvases that followed, the colours were chosen arbitrarily and drawn by chance. Then, 180 tones were mixed according to a given system and drawn by chance to make four variations of 180 tones. But after that the number 180 seemed too arbitrary to me, so I developed a system based on a number of rigorously defined tones and proportions.” ― Gerhard Richter
  50. “Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.” ― J. G. Ballard

    Andy Warhol Quotes about pop art

  51. “Pop art is a way of liking things.” ― Andy Warhol
  52. “The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting” ― Andy Warhol
  53. “I started drawing comics, and at first I was very influenced by the whole pop art movement, you know, Batman was on TV and all that pop art stuff? But then my next influence was in 1966, or maybe it was ’65, I don’t know. Somebody showed me a copy of the “East Village Other”, which was an underground newspaper. And… it had comics in it! And they weren’t superhero comics.” ― Trina Robbins
  54. “We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art, camp, a theater of the absurd… Do we have the art because the absurd is the patina of waste…? Or are we face to face with a desperate or most rational effort from the deepest resources of the unconscious of us all to rescue civilization from the pit and plague of its bedding?” ― Norman Mailer
  55. “I’m always on the look out for ‘the good image’. I’m like The Borg (you know, Star Trek) inasmuch as I assimilate everything – but I like to think I’m working in the Pop Art tradition.” ― Horace Panter
  56. “I was particularly proud of my performance as the Joker. I considered it a piece of pop art.” ― Jack Nicholson
  57. “I’ve worked with jazz artists, country artists, classical artists, pop artists. I never wanted there to be categories, because when I was a kid there weren’t.” ― Brian McKnight
  58. “Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too.” ― Claes Oldenburg
  59. “I think people always have – not just journalists who help their careers, I think all people struggle with this idea that a female pop artist can write all her songs. Even I do it sometimes, you see a really good female pop artist and you’re like, ‘I wonder if she writes her songs.’ That’s never really my first initial reaction to a male popstar.” ― Ellie Rowsell
  60. “I think for the open-minded, I’m a lot like Luciano Pavarotti… But I don’t know the technique. I’m learning. I think Pavarotti was a citizen of the world. He was very eclectic. He sang with Sting and with a lot of other pop artists, and this open-mindedness, for me, is very important.” ― Amaury Vassili
  61. “In England, pop art and fine art stand resolutely back-to-back.” ― Colin MacInnes
  62. “It is the transcendent (or ‘abstract’ or ‘self-contained’) nature of music that the new so called concretism–Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete–opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.” ― Igor Stravinsky
  63. “Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.” ― Andy Warhol
  64. “I never read; I just look at pictures.” ― Andy Warhol
  65. “I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.” ― Andy Warhol
  66. “Business Art is the step that comes after Art.” ― Andy Warhol
  67. “Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.” ― Andy Warhol
  68. “I wonder if it’s possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.” ― Andy Warhol
  69. “Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art” ― Andy Warhol
  70. “I think everybody should like everybody.” ― Andy Warhol
  71. “In the beginning, the energy involved to create came from my reaction to the work of other artists. The force behind this was aggression. The art that I saw was great, but I had to reject it, because I could not continue in the same direction. So I had to do something entirely different. It had to be so different, so extreme, that those who loved pop art, for instance, hated me. And this was my strength.” ― Georg Baselitz
  72. “Much to my chagrin, I think that cinema has gone the wrong way in America because in many ways, I pioneered the use of video which eventually became digital video. Everyone can do it; it’s Pop Art time: “Everything is art, why should you take it so seriously, after all it’s kind of like a clambake.” I don’t buy that.” ― Rob Nilsson
  73. “There’s a definite connection in terms of objects at hand – dealing with objects or material at hand. Pop art was very much enamored with popular imagery, and popular imagery was of course available and at hand. And land art was also using what was at hand.” ― Virginia Dwan
  74. “I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.” ― Robert Indiana
  75. “When I hear the same formula being used over and over, I get bored. Just as huge pop artists have taken inspiration from things that are happening at the moment, I do the same with my music.” ― Katy B
  76. “I’m definitely a pop artist at heart.” ― Sheena Easton
  77. “I did an art show for Donald Trump at his house in Palm Beach, Florida. It was a bunch of pop art and stuff like that, so I wasn’t doing any graffiti at that time, so I’d say from about 2000 to 2006, I wasn’t doing any graffiti.” ― Alec Monopoly
  78. “I remember Steve Kaufman as the artist on Saturday Night Live doing the Pop Art portraits for the show.” ― Joe Piscopo
  79. “When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them.” ― Andy Warhol
  80. “I think the term ‘conceptual art is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever.” ― John Baldessari
  81. “I’m maybe not so anxious to be a successful pop artist. Of course, I want people to like my music, but I know what the price of success can be, too. Basically, I’m happy as long as I can keep my freedom, so I’m so happy with the way things are at the moment. I get to be hands-on with details in every aspect of what I’m doing, but I also get to perform for a big audience.” ― Robyn
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Characteristics Of Pop Art

  • Uses Everyday Known and recognizable images Of Famous People or Objects.
  • Uses Bold Colors (Vivid Red, Royal Blue, and Bright Yellow)
  • They were created for fun and humor

 


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