I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't.
Roy LichtensteinPop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
Roy LichtensteinWhat interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward - neo-Zen and all that. Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
Roy Lichtenstein