Andy Warhol Quotes

Take an exhibit, in the days when we saw the Pop art - Andy Warhol and all that - tomato soup cans, etc., and coming home, you saw everything like A. Warhol.

For me, Warhol made so much sense.

The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.

'Interview' created indelible images of Pop Art that arrived on people's doorsteps every month.

I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working on, like popular culture, is so present all around us that they're hard to see. It's like: How do you see the air you breathe? How do you see how it affects you?

Andy [Warhol] put on his fey kind of act, but he wanted to be number one and he succeeded. But you never know. Fifty years from now he might not be seen as so important, but the way our whole culture has gone, and the way it continues to go, is his way - for better or for worse.

In today's world, America's soft power is commonly thought to reside in the global popularity of Hollywood movies, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Starbucks.

Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.

The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.

I really like the pop culture materials of everyday life, but used in some way that elevates them to something you notice and care about.

The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.

I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened; everything in America was being questioned.

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.

The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can.

I love Andy Warhol!

I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see it.