Andy Warhol — "During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And …"
During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered. I think that once you see emotions from a certain angle you can never think of them as real again. That's what more or less has happened to me. I don't really know if I was ever capable of love, but after the '60s I never thought in terms of 'love' again.
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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.
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From his book, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again).