“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

Source: 1960's, What is Pop Art? Interviews with eight painters' (1963), pp. 25-27

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