“One of the things a cartoon does is to express violent emotion and passion in a completely mechanical and removed style. To express this thing in a painterly style would dilute it; the techniques I use are not commercial, they only appear to be commercial – and the ways of seeing and composing and unifying are different and have different ends.”

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

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American pop artist 1923–1997

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