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Roy Lichtenstein Quotes

1923–1997 United States

Roy Fox Lichtenstein (27 October 1923 – 29 September 1997) was a prominent American pop artist, whose work borrowed heavily from popular advertising and comic book styles, which he himself described as being "as artificial as possible."

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Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Miro and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.

My work is actually different from comic strips in that every mark is really in a different place, however slight the difference seems to some. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.

What is Pop Art? Interviews with eight painters (1963)

'How can you [accept] exploitation?' 'How can you like the complete mechanization of work?' 'How can you like bad art?' I have to answer that I accept it as being there, in the world.

What is Pop Art? Interviews with eight painters (1963)

Organized perception is what is art all about.. .It is a process. It has nothing to do with any external form the painting takes, it has to do with a way of building a unified pattern of seeing...

What is Pop Art? Interviews with eight painters (1963)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Roy Lichtenstein (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.