Pop Art Quotes

• Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Art, Looks, World

  Interview by G.R. Swenson, "Painters on Painting" by Eric Protter, p 263, 1971.

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• The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second — comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators, Coke bottles. All the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried not to notice at all.

  Andy Warhol

  Artist, Men, Bottles

  Quoted in Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett POPism: The Warhol '60s (1980).

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• Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

  Leonard Baskin

  Art, Pops, Modernism

  1965 In Publisher's Weekly, 5 Apr. See Wilde 909:22.

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• Pop art is
  the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive!

  Robert Indiana

  Dream, Art, Optimistic

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• Pop Art is industrial painting. I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it's what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, it won't be American; it will be universal.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Art, Thinking, Europe

  Roy Lichtenstein, John Caplans (1968). “Roy Lichtenstein: Exhibition 6 Jan.-4 Feb. 1968, Tate Gallery, London ...”

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• Pop art is for everyone.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Photographer, Pops

  Peter Kattenberg, Andy Warhol (2001). “Andy Warhol, Priest: "The Last Supper Comes in Small, Medium, and Large"”, p.40, BRILL

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• Outside is the world; it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Art, Looks, World

  Roy Lichtenstein, John Caplans (1968). “Roy Lichtenstein: Exhibition 6 Jan.-4 Feb. 1968, Tate Gallery, London ...”

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• Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.

  Grace Hartigan

  Art, Emotion, Painting

  "Grace Hartigan, 86, Abstract Painter, Dies" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. November 18, 2008.

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• Don't worry about mistakes. Making things out of mistakes, that's creativity.

  Peter Max

  Inspirational, Mistake, Creativity

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• Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

  Andy Warhol

  Fashion, Style, Reason

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• We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular - popular culture.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, Roots, Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Pop art is about liking things.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Pops, Art Is

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• I am a pop artist, so my medium is public opinion and the world is my canvas.

  Kanye West

  Artist, World, Public Opinion

  "Kanye West Receives Honorary Doctorate From SAIC: Listen" by Eric Torres, pitchfork.com. May 11, 2015.

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• Only thanks to Pop Art, my painting has become understandable.

  Domenico Gnoli

  Art, Thanks, Painting

  Source: observer.com

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• Reality itself is steadily becoming more colored. Think of what factories were like, especially in Italy at the beginning of the 19th century, when industrialization was just beginning: gray, brown and smoky. Color didn't exist. Today, instead, most everything is colored. The pipe running from the basement to the 12th floor is green because it carries steam. The one carrying electricity is red, and that with water is purple. Also, plastic colors have filled our homes, even revolutionized our taste. Pop art grew out of that and was possible because of this change in taste.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Running, Art, Home

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• People should fall in love with their eyes closed.

  Andy Warhol

  Love, Fall, Eye

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you stop wanting something, you get it.

  Andy Warhol

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• By the late '50s, something was happening in England, and it got to be quite exciting. The music world then started to explode with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. It was an incredible time with this mixture of independence in art, fashion, and the explosion of the pop sensibility. London was certainly at the center of it all for a few years. And as far as art is concerned, I think that sensibility of what was later called Pop art started in England even before America. And so I was lucky to be there.

  Tony Shafrazi

  Fashion, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn.

  Don DeLillo

  Art, Kitsch, Taste

  Don DeLillo (2012). “Running Dog”, p.148, Vintage

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• I’m really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts

  Andy Warhol

  Happiness, Happy, Lasts

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• After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, Impact, Graffiti

  "Jeffrey Deitch" by Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2010.

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• There's something retro about the pop culture references in the paintings, so I'd imagine it's not as much a pop culture reference as a pop art reference.

  Joe Bradley

  Art, Culture, Painting

  Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2015.

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• Reality is what you can get away with.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Get Away

  Robert Anton Wilson (2002). “Tsog: The Thing That Ate the Constitution”

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• The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

  Andy Warhol

  Ideas, Waiting, Anticipation

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in 1974 with a painting that consisted of 4,096 colour fields. Initially I was attracted by the typical Pop Art aestheticism of using standard colour-sample cards; I preferred the unartistic, tasteful and secular illustration of the different tones to the paintings of Albers, Bill, Calderara, Lohse, etc.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Illustration, Ideas

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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