A biography for Roy Lichtensteinhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.”
“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.”
“Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.”