“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.”

— Roy Lichtenstein

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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