A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse - including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He's such an American symbol, and such an anti-art symbol.
Roy LichtensteinI don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.
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 LichtensteinPainting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
Roy LichtensteinThe big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all the traditions- all the other so-called rules, because they are stylistic.. and most are not true. As long as the marks are related to one another, there is unity. Unity in the work itself depends on unity of the artist's vision.
Roy Lichtenstein