Andy Warhol — "People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actuall…"
People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television – you don't feel anything. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television.
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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
Reflection after being shot in 1968, from his book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again).
