American - Artist | October 27, 1923 - September 29, 1997
When I have used cartoon images, I've used them ironically to raise the question, 'Why would anyone want to do this with modern painting?'
Roy Lichtenstein
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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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When I started to do these Pop paintings seriously, I used all these other paintings - the abstract ones - as mats. I was painting in the bedroom, and I put them on the floor so I wouldn't get paint on the floor. They got destroyed.
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When I was going to school and under the influence of Abstract Expressionism, I believed that if you had a give-and-take rapport with your work that it would be you, and that would be all that was required. It would be honest, and the core of your personality would come out if you responded to position and contrasts in your work.
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Picasso's sculpture has incredible strength combined with a lack of pomposity.
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I don't think there is any question that Picasso is the greatest figure of the 20th century.
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I wasn't sure pop art or my work would last more than six months.
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