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Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.
Roy Lichtenstein
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Roy Lichtenstein
Age: 73 †
Born: 1923
Born: October 27
Died: 1997
Died: September 29
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