Lichtenstein Art Quotes & Sayings

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

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

We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life forms, that's the cruelest hoax of all. — Dwight Schultz

Plant a tree in your lifetime. — Lailah Gifty Akita

All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons. — Roy Lichtenstein

Syn let out a tired breath. I'd never hit you, Cruel. I only fantasize about strangling you. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The criteria for coming to Jesus is weariness. Come overwhelmed with life. Come with your wandering mind. Come messy. — Paul E. Miller

Everything is energy. All matter is energy. Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It is the cause and affect of itself. It is evenly present in all places, at all times. Energy is in constant motion and never rests. It is forever moving from one form to another. Energy follows thought. — Jack Canfield

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

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. — Roy Lichtenstein

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

My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read that way ... People mistake the character of line for the character of art. But it's really the position of line that's important, or the position of anything, any contrast, not the character of it. — Roy Lichtenstein

Outside is the world; it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world. — Roy Lichtenstein

It was not possible for us to produce the same optimism and the same kind of humour or irony. Actually, it was not irony. Lichtenstein is not ironic but he does have a special kind of humour. That's how I could describe it: humour and optimism. For Polke and me, everything was more fragmented. But how it was broken up is hard to describe. — Gerhard Richter

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

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

Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats — Honore De Balzac

I then discovered the Pop Art of Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Peter Max. I was inspired that these fun and colourful images could be presented seriously on canvas. — Joe Average

Talks since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949 when the Republic of China government — Anonymous

I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't. — Roy Lichtenstein

One's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days. — Bertrand Russell

I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you. — Mike Lowry

Mene mene tekel upsharin,' Jace said with a faint smile. 'You don't recognize it? It's from the Bible, vampire. The old one. That's your book, isn't it?'
Just because I'm Jewish doesn't mean I've memorized the Old Testament.'
It's the Writing on the Wall. "God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end; thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting." It's a portent of doom
it means the end of an empire. — Cassandra Clare

Organized perception is what art is all about. — Roy Lichtenstein

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

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

To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent — Peter Drucker

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

Plans are what you make when you are starting your life, Martin. Life is what happens when you're making your plans." Tino — Amy Lane

It was around this time that I'd begun trying to perfect the art of fucking with people's minds. I'd figured out that when someone else was hogging the limelight, you could cut him down to size by bringing up a subject he didn't know anything about. If the other person knew a lot about literature, I'd talk about the Velvet Underground; if he knew a lot about rock, I'd talk about Messiaen; if he knew a lot about classical music, I'd talk about Roy Lichtenstein; if he knew a lot about pop art, I'd talk about Jean Genet; and so on. Do that in a small provincial city and you never lose an argument. — Ryu Murakami

The power of both myth and art is this magical ability to open doors, to make connections - not only between us and the natural world, but between us and the rest of humanity. Myths show us what we have in common with every other human being, no matter what culture we come from, no matter what century we live in ... and at the same time, mythic stories and art celebrate our essential differences ... — Alan Lee