90 Quotes by Roy Lichtenstein

My work isn't about form. It's about seeing.

I don't know why you'd want to say your work comes from nature, because art is related to perception, not nature. All abstract artists try to tell you that what they do comes from nature, and I'm always trying to tell you that what I do is completely abstract. We're both saying something we want to be true.

I don't think that my art isn't serious. I think the subjects are not serious, or my treatments of the subjects are not serious. But then, I'm also putting down subject, because like the abstract expressionists, I don't think the subject is important.

I wasn't sure pop art or my work would last more than six months.

Actually, I love the Abstract Expressionists - or I like the ones I like, anyway.

I think you go nuts when you get older.

I drew as a child, they tell me. I can vaguely remember doing it. And then I drew again in the late years at high school.

I'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other people saw things.

When I started to do these Pop paintings seriously, I used all these other paintings - the abstract ones - as mats. I was painting in the bedroom, and I put them on the floor so I wouldn't get paint on the floor. They got destroyed.