“Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.”

Roy Lichtenstein

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

Roy Lichtenstein

“I think we're much smarter than we were. 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.”

Roy Lichtenstein

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

Roy Lichtenstein

“What interests me is to paint the kind of anti-sensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian....”

Roy Lichtenstein