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I'm never drawing the object itself I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it.

Roy Lichtenstein

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Roy Lichtenstein
Age: 73 †
Born: 1923
Born: October 27
Died: 1997
Died: September 29
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