Words matter. These are the best Pop Art Quotes from famous people such as Jeffrey Deitch, Peter Saul, Leslie Fiedler, Rebecca Sugar, Corita Kent, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.
The Pop art I wound up doing came to me purely from ‘Mad’ comics. I loved the idea of doing fun stuff. I met an art dealer who wanted to show the work – that was in January 1962 – and that was the beginning for me.
The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That’s the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I’ve been thinking about that a lot.
I find pop art really offensive because it’s taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can’t see it.
Take an exhibit, in the days when we saw the Pop art – Andy Warhol and all that – tomato soup cans, etc., and coming home, you saw everything like A. Warhol.
I wasn’t sure pop art or my work would last more than six months.
After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.
I’m the one who gave steroids to Pop art.
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
I collect candy packaging from around the world and believe it has the value of Pop Art.
Everybody has called Pop Art ‘American’ painting, but it’s actually industrial painting.
‘Interview’ created indelible images of Pop Art that arrived on people’s doorsteps every month.
I’ve always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That’s what I’ve always done.
Film is pop art. It’s not whether it’s auteur cinema or not; that’s a false distinction. Cinema is cinema.
There’s a famous artist, Ron English, in New York, that just, or Andy Warhol for that matter, that did pop art that terrorized society. And that’s, for the last like 10, 15 years, that’s all I wanted to do, is terrorize society and make them look into a mirror and see what the hell we have wrought.
I don’t mean this, but I’m going to say it anyway. I don’t really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.
I don’t think geometric art is… I don’t like to call it that. I don’t think it’s any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn’t have anything to do with purity.
I’m not interested in pop art.
