“I’m never drawing the object itself; I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it.”
The artist quoted in Exh. Cat., New York, Katonah Museum of Art, Lichtenstein in Progress, 2009, p. 9

Roy Lichtenstein at the 33rd Venice Biennale, 1966. Photo by Erhard Whermann. Art © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein