Roy Lichtenstein Quote

One of the things a cartoon does is to express violent emotion and passion in a completely mechanical and removed style. To express this thing in a painterly style would dilute it; the techniques I use are not commercial, they only appear to be commercial – and the ways of seeing and composing and unifying are different and have different ends.


pp. 25-27 - 'What is Pop Art? Interviews with eight painters' (1963)


One of the things a cartoon does is to express violent emotion and passion in a completely mechanical and removed style. To express this thing in a...

One of the things a cartoon does is to express violent emotion and passion in a completely mechanical and removed style. To express this thing in a...

One of the things a cartoon does is to express violent emotion and passion in a completely mechanical and removed style. To express this thing in a...

One of the things a cartoon does is to express violent emotion and passion in a completely mechanical and removed style. To express this thing in a...