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He was dramatically and desperately sincere in his renunciation of any political or social critique. Images of death, disaster and violence make news and mesmerize people, and that is what Warhol was interested in.

Francesco Bonami
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I honestly thought Warhol was a bit of a fraud. [But] once you get into it, you understand why he was revolutionary. He is the modern idea of what fame is. He did to himself what the old studio system did to its stars - package it, make it accessible.

Jared Harris
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The Sixth Street Bridge is the Roberto Clemente Bridge, named for a sports figure, and sports is so important in this town. The Seventh Street Bridge is the Andy Warhol Bridge, which points out how important the arts are to this area. And now, the third bridge is dedicated to science, so important to the county.

Richard Fitzgerald
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Warhol was using the media as a tool to do his art. He wasn't manipulating it. He was absolutely fascinated with it.

Francesco Bonami
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The agency then commissioned a photographer to take pictures around the city. The designer then merged the pictures to create a three-dimensional effect, and then created an 'Andy Warhol effect' on the pictures.

Mandy Jean Woods
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Andy Warhol understood early on that death and fame are the subjects that attract the most people. There is this tension in the exhibit that gives it a great strength. Warhol is someone who found an aesthetic in violence, but he also found real beauty in the shallowness of celebrity.

Francesco Bonami
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Ninety percent of the people on 'Survivor' you never hear from again either so, you know, Andy Warhol was right. They had their 15 minutes of fame - and that was it.

Jonathan Taplin
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Was Andy Warhol a bisexual?

Casey Affleck
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Andy Warhol was a pioneer of looking at society as this machine. Warhol looked, in a good and bad way, at the power of media and celebrity images. He looked at violence, and he looked at fame. He looked at consumerism. He was looking at reality like a film, and editing it. His art is more about the idea than the execution of it.

Francesco Bonami
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We like to think of the arts as highfalutin, and all of a sudden Warhol was making art that was pedestrian, working-class.

Thomas Sokolowski
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Andy Warhol was obsessed with the image of celebrities being visual icons. The position of the gun is bold, menacing, and beautiful. Elvis is almost like a Greek figure.

Francesco Bonami
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As you look at these powerful images, you see there is something very dignified about this woman. Warhol was very into the elegance rather than the tragedy of Jackie Kennedy. These images are about sorrow, loss and mourning.

Francesco Bonami
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I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead -- the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!

J. G. Ballard
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[Her initial interest in performing was motivated partly by artistic curiosity, partly by a desire to rock.] I was really into Warhol and pop art, and I thought the next step was to actually be working within popular culture. ... I guess I played some tasty licks.

Sonic Youth
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