Fred Schneider Quotes

We're a pop art band. Not a pop band.

For me, Warhol made so much sense.

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.

I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.

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.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Warhol had a huge effect on me. It wasn't that I sought it out. It was more of a natural evolution.

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

My basic influence had probably been Peter Max.

Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

In the eighteenth century, it was ladies and gentlemen and swings in a garden; today, it may be Campbell's soup cans or highway signs. There is no real difference. The artist still takes his everyday world and tries to make something out of it.

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

I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.

I decided to make pictures of fragments, images that would spill off the canvas instead of recede into it like a medicine cabinet. I wanted to find images that were in a 'nether-nether-land': things that were a little out of style but hadn't reached the point of nostalgia.

I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.

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

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

A work of art can start you thinking about some aesthetic or philosophical problem; it can suggest some new method, some fresh approach to fiction.

When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polke, Rauschenberg, Warhol.

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.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

Whether it be in comics, games or film, you can trace the art direction and influences back to some earlier, real-life historic period or artistic movement.

I love Andy Warhol!