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.
More Quotes by Roy Lichtenstein
Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is being made.
My work isn't about form. It's about seeing.
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.