Quotes About Lichtenstein

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

When I was in Congress, I worked with Joe Kennedy to rename the Justice Department for Bobby, and when I retired, Teddy Kennedy sent me this Roy Lichtenstein print of his brother, inscribed: 'Bobby would have been proud of you.'

Popart was oorspronkelijk bedoeld als een belediging, maar al in 1963 moest Lichtensteien in een interview vaststellen dat het moeilijk was een schilderij te maken dat de mensen niet aan de wand zouden willen hangen: alles werd aan de wand gehangen, de mensen zouden eraan gewend raken. Zelfs tegen de alom afgewezen commerciële kunst was men niet haatdragend genoeg.

The only thing the Pop Artists had in common is that we all had been commercial artists in some manner. Lichtenstein was a draftsman; I was a billboard painter, but we didn't work together. I didn't meet Andy Warhol until 1964.

I started from nothing in Lichtenstein. The country is so small, and the only 'celebrity' type people who are from there are skiers.

I think there's the apparent lack of subtlety and sort of make-believe anti-sensibility connected with American art. I think this is a style, and it does relate to our culture, and I think it would be anachronistic maybe to pretend to be involved with subtle changes and modulations and things like that, because it's really not part of America.