90 Quotes by Roy Lichtenstein

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you're trying to make.

In America the biggest is the best.

People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn't. It's a convention.

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.

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

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.

Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.

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.