Andy Warhol — "But to become a famous artist you had to do something that was 'different'. And …"
But to become a famous artist you had to do something that was 'different'. And if it was 'different', then it means you took a risk, because the critics could have said that it was bad instead of good… They always say new art is bad for a while, that's the risk – that's the pain you have to have for fame.
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American Pop Art icon whose Factory industrialized image-making and erased the line between commerce and fine art.
Closely associated with
Roy Lichtenstein (Pop comic-strip painter) and Robert Rauschenberg (combine-painter precursor).
For an intellectual contrast, see
Mark Rothko, Abstract Expressionist of the deeply personal color field — Rothko stood for emotional depth and singular authorship — exactly what Warhol's silkscreen production line industrially refused.
Details
Warhol On Art
Date: Undated, likely from 'The Philosophy of Andy Warhol'