Alison Jackson Quotes

For me, Warhol made so much sense.

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.

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

I've often thought - even though it's hard to give him even more credit than he has had - that Andy Warhol must have started a lot of 15 minutes of fame.

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan's work. Like Andy, Ryan's finger is so on the pulse of culture that he's ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar.

Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.

All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.

I love photography myself.

Cecil Beaton was Andy Warhol before Andy Warhol, really.

I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera. I look into the camera and take pictures. My photographs are the tiniest part of what I see that could be photographed. They are fragments of endless possibilities.

You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

He [Andy Warhol] engaged people and I think all of that is what helped keep him keyed in to the times beyond all of the celebrity stuff that was going on around him. He was much more like a fan than a celebrity himself.

The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.

I think as I get older that's an area that I'd like to explore more. Going from being in front of the lens to behind it.

In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.

Pop art is for everyone.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.