Roy Lichtenstein

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

— Roy Lichtenstein

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Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

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I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

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I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know? ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

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In America the biggest is the best. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

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