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Organized perception is what is art all about.. .It is a process. It has nothing to do with any external form the painting takes, it has to do with a way of building a unified pattern of seeing...

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

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Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Miro and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.

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

'How can you [accept] exploitation?' 'How can you like the complete mechanization of work?' 'How can you like bad art?' I have to answer that I accept it as being there, in the world.

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