I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstrac… — Roy Lichtenstein

I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.

Roy LichtensteinArtist · American · 1923 – 1997

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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. — Pablo Picasso
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. — Anatole France
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. — Norman Mailer
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. — Roy Lichtenstein
You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard. — Roy Lichtenstein
I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know? — Roy Lichtenstein