Quotes by Roy Lichtenstein

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms. (Roy Lichtenstein)

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)

I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting. (Roy Lichtenstein)

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)

I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but its 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)

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me. (Roy Lichtenstein)

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)

I think were 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 theres another purpose to it. (Roy Lichtenstein)

In America the biggest is the best. (Roy Lichtenstein)

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. (Roy Lichtenstein)