Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. -Roy Lichtenstein Art
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. -Roy Lichtenstein Society
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
There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney. -Roy Lichtenstein Relationship