Roy Lichtenstein

Pop Art is not American painting but industrial painting.

I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the most vital and pertinent art being done today.

I think my work is different from comic strips—but I wouldn't call it transformation; I don't think that it's changing it. I think it's forming it. I use art to form it.

I don't think that I'm a Pop artist. I don't think that I'm anything. I'm just an artist.

I try to make my work as anonymous as possible. I want it to look like it was done by a machine.

The things I have done are things that I've always been interested in, and I've always thought that they were art.

I think that art is a way of looking at the world, and I think that it's a way of making the world more interesting.

I'm not trying to make a statement about society. I'm just trying to make a painting.

I was never interested in the subject matter to begin with. I was interested in the formal qualities of the work.

I think that art is a way of making something out of nothing.

I'm interested in the kind of things that are considered bad art, because I think that they're very powerful.

I use comic books as a source material, but I don't try to copy them. I try to make them into something else.

I think that the most important thing in art is to be original.

I think that art is a way of seeing the world in a new way.

I'm interested in the kind of things that are considered vulgar, because I think that they're very strong.

I think that art is a way of making something that's beautiful.

I'm interested in the kind of things that are considered kitsch, because I think that they're very powerful.

I think that art is a way of making something that's meaningful.

I'm interested in the kind of things that are considered lowbrow, because I think that they're very strong.

I think that art is a way of making something that's interesting.