Roy Lichtenstein Quotes

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

I remember one day when Juan Gris told me about a bunch of grapes he had seen in a painting by Picasso. The next day these grapes appeared in a painting by Gris, this time in a bowl; and the day after, the bowl appeared in a painting by Picasso.

I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.

I'm glad Wu-Tang was able to inspire other producers and artists, but I would never want to be erased or removed.

[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

For whatever crispness and animation my writing has I give some credit to the cartoonist manque.

My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.

I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.

My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.

Crumb was such an influence on me. He's such a visionary, such a great artist, that he so shaped my artistic sensibilities on a certain level that I do owe everything to him. The way I see the world is largely changed by him.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Great art inspires great art.

I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures.

I never sat down and said, you know, what the world needs is a good, sick cartoonist.

I don't think there is any question that Picasso is the greatest figure of the 20th century.

The one artist who actually had influence over me was Bo Bartlett.

I like drawing from all kinds of territories in art.

We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)

That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do.

I've met others [people] who simply responded to me, "You're Kehinde Wiley. I know your work. I saw it at the Brooklyn Museum [Brooklyn, NY] And I'd be honored to be in your work."

I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.

The thing that a lot of people may or may not know is every artist is a cinephile, whether they watch movies whether they're painting, or have films that influence them.

In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form.

My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings.