Andy Warhol Quotes


What I was actually trying to do in my early movies was show how people can meet other people and what they can do and what they can say to each other. That was the whole idea: two people getting acquainted.


Citations

Warhol, Andy, and Pat Hackett. POPism: The Warhol '60s. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980, p. 273.

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Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
  • Born: August 6, 1928
  • Died: February 22, 1987
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Artist

Andy Warhol was an American artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture. Some of his best known works include the silkscreen paintings Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) and Marilyn Diptych (1962), the experimental films Empire (1964) and Chelsea Girls (1966), and the multimedia events known as the Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966–67).