The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second โ comics, picnic tables, menโs trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators, Coke bottles. All the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried not to notice at all.
Andy WarholBusiness art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.
Andy WarholI'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.
Andy WarholIn the early days of film, fans used to idolize a whole star - they would take one star and love everything about that star ... Today people can idolize a star in one area and forget about him in another. A big rock star might sell millions and millions of records, but then if he makes a bad movie ... forget it.
Andy Warhol