Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you're trying to make.
Roy LichtensteinEverybody 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 LichtensteinWe're not living in a school-of-Paris world, you know, and the things we really see in America are like this. It's McDonald's, it's not Le Corbusier.
Roy LichtensteinI'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it.
Roy LichtensteinWe like to think of industrialization as being despicable. I don't really know what to make of it. Thereโs something terribly brittle about it. I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter. There are certain things that are usable, forceful, and vital about commercial art. We're using those things โ but we're not really advocating stupidity, international teenagerism, and terrorism.
Roy Lichtenstein