Top 54 Lichtenstein Quotes
#1. David stood up and said: Sorry Lichtenstein, but I am not here to change the world. I am changing the world because I am here.
Marianne Williamson
#2. The only thing the Pop Artists had in common is that we all had been commercial artists in some manner. Lichtenstein was a draftsman; I was a billboard painter, but we didn't work together. I didn't meet Andy Warhol until 1964.
James Rosenquist
#3. Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.
Deborah Kass
#4. Telling people that I wanted to make dance music, or be on the radio, they looked at me like I was crazy because there was nothing like that in Lichtenstein when I was getting started. That's why I went to Germany, because there is industry there.
Al Walser
#5. Work for a cause David, not for applause.
Remember to live your life to express, not to impress, don't strive to make your presence noticed, just make your absence felt. - Lichtenstein
Grace Lichtenstein
#6. When I was in Congress, I worked with Joe Kennedy to rename the Justice Department for Bobby, and when I retired, Teddy Kennedy sent me this Roy Lichtenstein print of his brother, inscribed: 'Bobby would have been proud of you.'
Joe Scarborough
#7. 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
#8. I'm sorry Mr Lichtenstein, but your January birthday means only one thing and that's you're probably conceived
on April Fools Day.
Olivia Lichtenstein
#9. I started from nothing in Lichtenstein. The country is so small, and the only 'celebrity' type people who are from there are skiers.
Al Walser
#10. That morning David realized that grudges are a waste of perfect happiness.
Laugh when every time you can Mr Lichtenstein. Apologize when you should, and let go of what you can't change.
Marianne Williamson
#11. The first piece I ever collected was a Roy Lichtenstein: a sculpture called 'Surrealist Head II'. There was a waiting list. I remember Steve Martin wanted one, and I wanted one. I got the 'Surrealist Head', and I was thrilled.
Jeff Koons
#12. We scatter small parts of ourselves as we journey through life, pieces that are stored by others and about which we may have no memory.
Olivia Lichtenstein
#13. Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high-jump.
Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination.
Grace Lichtenstein
#14. 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.
Roy Lichtenstein
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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.
Roy Lichtenstein
#18. Little in American culture, politics, or business encourages the institutionalization of a collective employee voice.
Nelson Lichtenstein
#19. 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.
Roy Lichtenstein
#20. All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.
Roy Lichtenstein
#21. 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
#22. My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.
Roy Lichtenstein
#23. 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
#24. Use the worst colour you can find in each place - it usually is the best.
Roy Lichtenstein
#25. 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
#26. I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.
Roy Lichtenstein
#27. I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
Roy Lichtenstein
#28. People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn't. It's a convention.
Roy Lichtenstein
#29. Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
Roy Lichtenstein
#30. Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
Roy Lichtenstein
#31. 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.
Roy Lichtenstein
#32. David, dear. But you look the best when you wear your smile. There is no beauty like the one that comes from inside you.
Olivia Lichtenstein
#33. The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire,
Roy Lichtenstein
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. The biggest troublemaker David will probably ever have to deal with, watches him from the mirror every morning.
Olivia Lichtenstein
#41. My work isn't about form. It's about seeing. I'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other people see things.
Roy Lichtenstein
#42. Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient ...
Grace Lichtenstein
#43. I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't.
Roy Lichtenstein
#44. I'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
Roy Lichtenstein
#45. Outside is the world; it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world.
Roy Lichtenstein
#46. 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
#47. I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.
Roy Lichtenstein
#48. 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.
Roy Lichtenstein
#49. 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
#50. 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.
Roy Lichtenstein
#53. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
Roy Lichtenstein
#54. 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.
Roy Lichtenstein
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