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The one pop artist whose work seemed to embrace consumerism was Andy Warhol ... An art of numb repetition. Andrew Graham-Dixon, Art of America: What Lies Beneath 3/3, BBC 2011
It’s variety but it’s also a trap ... This is your world, America. ibid.
Modern art is a mixture of snob culture and amazing openmindedness like Andy Warhol. Modern art is a system but one that’s always changing. On the other hand he also stands for a kind of atrophying of the restless modern art mind. Matthew Collings, This is Modern Art I, Channel 4 1999
Here’s Warhol with his icons of modern life – modern celebrity, modern glamour, modern sexiness … ‘Art is dead,’ said Warhol. ibid.
This is Pittsburgh where Warhol was born in 1928. He lived here with his mother and father who came over from Czechoslovakia … Warhol was always ill as a child. ibid.
Warhol is a 1960s figure, artist, a celebrity icon … He de-personalised the faces of the famous. Matthew Collings, Hello Culture: Celebrity, 2001
We were seeing the future and we knew it for sure ... [Andy] Warhol and his fellow pop artists created some of the most memorable images of the twentieth century. Alastair Sooke, Soup Cans and Superstars, BBC 2015
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have. Andy Warhol
Art is anything you can get away with. Andy Warhol
Beauty is a sign of intelligence. Andy Warhol
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. Andy Warhol
Everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. Andy Warhol
I am a deeply superficial person. Andy Warhol
I can’t even see what’s good any more. Andy Warhol, cited Basquiat 1996 starring Jeffrey Wright & David Bowie & Benicio del Toro & Dennis Hopper & Gary Oldman & Michael Wincott & Courtney Love & Claire Forlani & Tatum O’Neal & Christopher Walken & Willem Dafoe & Parker Posey & Sam Rockwell et al, director Julian Schnabel
Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves? Andy Warhol
I’ve decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks. Andy Warhol
I want to be a machine. Andy Warhol, cited Great Artists in Their Own Words II: Out of the Darkness 1939–1966, BBC 2013
Land really is the best art. Andy Warhol
My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person. Andy Warhol
The most wonderful thing about living is to be dead. Andy Warhol
When I begin to work on something, usually it takes me a minute to do. Andy Warhol
You’d be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Especially if the background colour matches the drapes. Andy Warhol, cited Moderna Museet
Warhol’s self-portrait 1963-4 showed his two-tone face ... Warhol: a ghost in the mechanised process. Laura Cumming, Ego: The Strange and Wonderful World of Self-Portraits, BBC 2013
I met him a couple of times, but we seldom shared more than platitudes. The first time we saw each other an awkward silence fell till he remarked my bright yellow shoes and started talking enthusiastically. He wanted to be very superficial. And seemingly emotionless, indifferent, just like a dead fish. Lou Reed described him most profoundly when he once told me they should bring a doll of Andy on the market: a doll that you wind up and doesn't do anything. But I managed to observe him well, and that was a helping hand for the film [Basquiat] ... We borrowed his clothes from the museum in Pittsburgh, and they were intact, unwashed. Even the pockets weren't emptied: they contained pancake, white, deadly pale fond de teint which Andy always smeared on his face, a cheque torn in pieces, someone’s address, lots of homeopathic pills and a wig. Andy always wore those silver wigs, but he never admitted it were wigs. One of his hairdressers has told me lately that he had his wigs regularly cut, like it were real hair. When the wig was trimmed, he put on another next month as if his hair had grown. David Bowie
My uncle was the first generation of immigrant parents. He looked at America with those fresh eyes seeing some things that were different and unique that maybe most people took for granted. Andy Warhol’s America I: Living the Dream, Warhol, BBC 2022
He also portrayed the American dream turned nightmare. ibid. woman
The worst place I have ever been in my life. ibid. Warhol, re Pittsburgh
We are living in a society that to a large extent is pop. ibid. Roy Lichtenstein
Brillo Soap Pads (Boxes) 1960s … Coloured Campbell’s Soup Cans 1965 … Twenty-Five Coloured Marilyns 1962 … Suicide 1962 … Little Electric Chair 1964/5 … Mustard Race Riot 1963 … Twelve Jackies 1964 … Andy Warhol’s America II: The American Nightmare
You’d be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their wall. ibid. Andy
The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will. Andy Warhol’s America III: Life After Death
Andy epitomised American culture in every aspect. ibid. friend
When I met him he did actually talk about getting shot. And it was really scary and it was horrible. ibid. Jerry Hall
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. ibid. Andy
The country is so rich. And I think I see more homeless people on the street every month. How can we let this keep happening? ibid.