Roy Lichtenstein Quotes

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.

I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.

People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.

The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

I love visual art. I painted for many years when I was younger. I have studied modern/contemporary Indian art a bit and am very impressed with the talent in India.

The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me.

Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art.

I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.

I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me.

I thought conceptual art was a joke.

The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going on.

If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking at art as though you hadn't seen art before.

Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.

We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable.