Best quotes by Roy Lichtenstein on Art

Checkout quotes by Roy Lichtenstein on Art

• ‟ Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

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• ‟ Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

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

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• ‟ I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

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• ‟ I think we're much smarter than we were. 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.

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• ‟ I wasn't sure pop art or my work would last more than six months.

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• ‟ 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 to try to better our world in any way.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Everybody has called Pop Art 'American' painting, but it's actually industrial painting.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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 subject, because like the abstract expressionists, I don't think the subject is important.

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