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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Organized perception is what art is all about.”

“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.”