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My work is actually different from comic strips in that every mark is really in a different place, however slight the difference seems to some. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.

— Roy Lichtenstein What is Pop Art? Interviews with eight painters (1963)

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Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

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