Corita Kent Quotes

For me, Warhol made so much sense.

It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.

Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.

Pop art is a way of liking things.

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

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

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.

Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.

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

I love Andy Warhol!

Everybody has called Pop Art 'American' painting, but it's actually industrial painting.

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

I don't think he'd [Andy Warhol] be that amazed because he was so driven to be the Picasso of the second half of the 20th century.

Pop art is for everyone.

Warhol came from an ordinary family and he had a profound understanding about capitalism and material culture. He was probably one of the few Western artists - or artists from the United States - that could be considered a true product of his time and brought out that kind of spirit of the culture.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

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

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.

Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism.

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

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

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

I'd like to think, that were he alive today, Warhol would be painting the Housewives.