59 Best Roy Lichtenstein Quotes About Art And Painting

Roy Lichtenstein Quotes

Roy Lichtenstein was an American Artist born on October 27, 1923 – and died on September 29, 1997.

He was a Pop Artist, an art movement that started in the 1950s and became famous in the 1960s. Pop Art uses bold and bright colors on already known and recognizable images of Famous people and everyday objects, Landscapes, and many more. Like the famous Beatles image, you may already know below.

Here are some famous Roy Lichtenstein Quotes about Pop Art, Painting, and Life. Be inspired.

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Famous Roy Lichtenstein Quotes About Art, Painting, And Pop Art

1. Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms. ― Roy Lichtenstein
2. I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me. ― Roy Lichtenstein
3. The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is being made. ― Roy Lichtenstein
4. I’ve never done an anguished painting. ― Roy Lichtenstein
5. Something terrible can happen in my life, but I wouldn’t put it in my art. ― Roy Lichtenstein
6. I think you go nuts when you get older. ― Roy Lichtenstein
7. 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. ― Roy Lichtenstein
8. 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
9. Making something good and saying something brilliant are not two things. When you make your own statement, there is a higher energy level, and you do the better painting. ― Roy Lichtenstein
10. I don’t have big anxieties. I wish I did. I’d be much more interesting. ― Roy Lichtenstein
11. 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? ― Roy Lichtenstein
12. 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. ― Roy Lichtenstein
13. There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso which the cartoonist may not understand, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney. ― Roy Lichtenstein
14. I’m not really sure what social message my art carries if any. And I don’t really want it to carry one. I’m not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything or try to better our world in any way. ― Roy Lichtenstein
15. I’m interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it’s the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can’t be this way. ― Roy Lichtenstein
16. In America the biggest is the best. ― Roy Lichtenstein
17. But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it. ― Roy Lichtenstein
18. I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it’s very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like. ― Roy Lichtenstein
19. Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit. ― Roy Lichtenstein
20. I don’t know why you’d want to say your work comes from nature, because art is related to perception, not nature. All abstract artists try to tell you that what they do comes from nature, and I’m always trying to tell you that what I do is completely abstract. We’re both saying something we want to be true. ― Roy Lichtenstein
21. I thought art was a sort of romantic life, or I don’t know what I thought art was like. But I learned practically everything I know from Ohio State. And I’m really glad I went. ― Roy Lichtenstein
22. Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him – or de Kooning or Still. ― Roy Lichtenstein
23. I don’t think there is any question that Picasso is the greatest figure of the 20th century. ― Roy Lichtenstein
24. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. ― Roy Lichtenstein
25. I wasn’t sure pop art or my work would last more than six months. ― Roy Lichtenstein
26. I’m trying to make paintings like giant musical chords, with a polyphony of colors that is nuts but works. ― Roy Lichtenstein
27. 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 Lichtenstein
28. Everybody has called Pop Art ‘American’ painting, but it’s actually industrial painting. ― Roy Lichtenstein
29. 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. ― Roy Lichtenstein
30. 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
31. I think art was the one thing my high school didn’t give. And I think that was probably one reason why I was interested in it. ― Roy Lichtenstein
32. Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking about how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty-five years now and people don’t look at it as if it were some kind of oddity. ― Roy Lichtenstein
33. I think there’s the apparent lack of subtlety and sort of make-believe anti-sensibility connected with American art. I think this is a style, and it does relate to our culture, and I think it would be anachronistic maybe to pretend to be involved with subtle changes and modulations and things like that because it’s really not part of America. ― Roy Lichtenstein
34. Actually, I love the Abstract Expressionists – or I like the ones I like, anyway. ― Roy Lichtenstein
35. You know, 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. ― Roy Lichtenstein
36. I don’t think that my art isn’t serious. I think the subjects are not serious, or my treatments of the subjects are not serious. But then, I’m also putting down the subject, because like the abstract expressionists, I don’t think the subject is important. ― Roy Lichtenstein
37. But 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. ― Roy Lichtenstein
38. I don’t think that I’m over his influence but they probably don’t look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures. ― Roy Lichtenstein
39. I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know? ― Roy Lichtenstein
40. 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. ― Roy Lichtenstein
41. I drew as a child, they tell me. I can vaguely remember doing it. And then I drew again in my late years in high school. ― Roy Lichtenstein
42. 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. ― Roy Lichtenstein
43. 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 positions and contrasts in your work. ― Roy Lichtenstein
44. Picasso’s sculpture has incredible strength combined with a lack of pomposity. ― Roy Lichtenstein
45. Use the worst color you can find in each place – it usually is the best. ― Roy Lichtenstein
46. Organized perception is what art is all about. ― Roy Lichtenstein
47. 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. ― Roy Lichtenstein
48. I’m never drawing the object itself; I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it. ― Roy Lichtenstein
49. All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons. ― Roy Lichtenstein
50. 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. ― Roy Lichtenstein
51. 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
52. I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t. ― Roy Lichtenstein
53. What interests me is to paint the kind of anti-sensitivity 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. ― Roy Lichtenstein
54. I don’t have big anxieties. I wish I did. I’d be much more interesting. ― Roy Lichtenstein’s funny quote
55. I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial. ― Roy Lichtenstein
56. The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire. ― Roy Lichtenstein
57. Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. ― Roy Lichtenstein
58. People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn’t. It’s a convention. ― Roy Lichtenstein
59. 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 the unity of the artist’s vision. ― Roy Lichtenstein