Facts about Roy Lichtenstein

Occup.Artist
FromUSA
BornOctober 27, 1923
DiedSeptember 29, 1997
Aged73 years

Summary

Roy Lichtenstein was a famous Artist from USA, who lived between October 27, 1923 and September 29, 1997. He/she became 73 years old.

Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac scorpio, who is known for Transient, Self-Willed, Purposeful, Unyielding. Our collection contains 20 quotes who is written / told by Roy, under the main topic Art.

Related authors: Robert Indiana (Artist), Jasper Johns (Artist)

20 Famous quotes by Roy Lichtenstein

Small: There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir and Picasso which may not be understood
"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"
Small: Art doesnt transform. It just plain forms
"Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms"
Small: In America the biggest is the best
"In America the biggest is the best"
Small: I think were much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people k
"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"
Small: But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairl
"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"
Small: Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing
"Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself"
Small: Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I dont really beli
"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"
Small: Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think its the
"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"
Small: I dont think that Im over his influence but they probably dont look like Picassos Picasso himself would
"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"
Small: You know, as you compose music, youre just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so
"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"
Small: I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me
"I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me"
Small: I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
"I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?"
Small: I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, b
"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"
Small: I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but its very hard to guess at a size or a color and
"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"
Small: I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting
"I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting"
Small: But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But eve
"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"
Small: Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painti
"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"
Small: Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very intere
"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"
Small: Picassos always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I w
"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"
Small: Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I dont really want it to carry one.
"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"