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Famous Pop Art QuotesHere are some quotes from the greatest Pop Art artists including Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and his friend Jean-Michel Basquiat.Andy Warhol They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. I am a deeply superficial person. I love Los Angeles, and I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again. People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. Everyone needs a fantasy. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. Art is what you can get away with. I like boring things. Jean-Michel Basquiat I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life. I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life. I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day Roy Lichtenstein Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. Roy Lichtenstein Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms. I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me. I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?
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