I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.
Roy LichtensteinI 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.
Roy LichtensteinIm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.
Roy Lichtenstein