Roy Lichtenstein

“I take a cliché and try to organize its forms to make it monumental.”

“Pop Art is not 'American' painting but actually 'industrial' painting.”

“I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one.”

“Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.”

“The things that I have apparently parodied I actually admire.”

“I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.”

“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.”

“Organized perception is what art is all about.”

“Visible brushstrokes in a painting are a stylization. The brushstroke is a depiction of a brushstroke; it is not a real brushstroke.”

“I think my work is different from comic strips - but I wouldn't call it transformation; I don't think that whatever is meant by it is important to art.”

“All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.”

“A minor thing I do is to make a painting that is so despicable that no one would hang it.”

“I suppose I would still be a misunderstood artist... I don't think I'm a misunderstood artist anymore.”