Andy Warhol in his artist quotes on American Pop Art - free resource, art history

Andy Warhol in his quotes - the artist tells about Pop Art, his painting and print art & artistic life in the U.S. - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in American art history

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In his artist-quotes Andy Warhol describes the characteristics of American Pop Art, its art-scene and his life. He explains moreover his daily-life philosophy. Warhol was a famous artist and a cult celebrity in the U.S. music-scene of 1960-70’s with his artistic scene around ‘The Factory’. Moreover he created graphic print art, paintings + photos in Pop Art style.

Warhol was certainly a leading artist in Pop Art in the U.S., by his pictures of iconic American daily-life products like Campbell’s Soup Cans and Coca-Cola bottles, and with his famous portrait-prints of Mao, Elvis Presley, Liz Taylor and Marilyn Monroe.
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Some selected quotes of American artist Andy Warhol - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’The reason I’m painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.’ - Warhol’s quote, in ‘What is Pop Art? Answers from 8 Painters’, Part 1, G. R. Swenson, in ‘Art News 62’, (Nov. 1963)

• ’If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface; of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it. - Warhol’s quote, in ‘Andy, My true Story 3’, Gretchen Berg, Los Angeles Free Press, U.S. (17 March 1967)

• ’During the 1960’s, 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…’ - quote of Warhol, in ‘The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: (From A to B and Back Again)’, Chapter 1: Puberty (1975) - ISBN 978-0156717205
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  links for free art-resources on American artist Andy Warhol:

  • biographical notes on Andy Warhol , Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Andy Warhol , Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol
  • images of the painting art of Andy Warhol , Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/andy-warhol
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]