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Top 30 Roy Lichtenstein Quotes (2024 Update)

Roy Lichtenstein Quote: “Outside is the world; it’s there. Pop Art looks out into the world.”

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

— Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein Quote: “Organized perception is what art is all about.”

2. “Organized perception is what art is all about.”

— Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein Quote: “All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.”

3. “All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.”

— Roy Lichtenstein

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

4. “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

Roy Lichtenstein Quote: “I’m never drawing the object itself; I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it.”

5. “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

Roy Lichtenstein Quote: “Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.”

6. “Use the worst colour you can find in each place – it usually is the best.”

— Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein Quote: “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.”

7. “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

Roy Lichtenstein Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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Roy Lichtenstein Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Roy Lichtenstein Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Roy Lichtenstein Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Roy Lichtenstein Quote: “I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.”

12. “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

Roy Lichtenstein Quote: “I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.”

13. “I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.”

— Roy Lichtenstein

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

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

— Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein Quote: “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.”

15. “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

Roy Lichtenstein Quote: “Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.”

16. “Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.”

— Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein Quote: “I don’t think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.”

17. “I don’t think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.”

— Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein Quote: “In America the biggest is the best.”

18. “In America the biggest is the best.”

— Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Roy Lichtenstein Quote: “Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.”

20. “Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.”

— Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein Quote: “I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.”

21. “I’d always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn’t.”

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Roy Lichtenstein Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

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Roy Lichtenstein Quote: “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.”

23. “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

Roy Lichtenstein Quote: “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.”

24. “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

Roy Lichtenstein Quote: “Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out 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.”

25. “Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out 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

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

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

— Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein Quote: “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.”

27. “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

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

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

— Roy Lichtenstein

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

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

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Roy Lichtenstein Quote: “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.”

30. “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.”

— Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein Quote: “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.”

31. “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

Roy Lichtenstein Quote: “Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.”

32. “Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. 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

Roy Lichtenstein Quote: “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.”

33. “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

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