Behind Quote by Alison Jackson

Warhol came from an ordinary family and he had a profound understanding about capitalism and material culture. He was probably one of the few…

— Ai Weiwei

Like everybody, I wanted to meet Andy Warhol. I was impressed by his work and how daring he was. I think he changed the…

— Agnes Varda

Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't…

— Barbara Kruger

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I…

— Andy Warhol

So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a…

— Harvey Fierstein

Andy [Warhol] was on the scene, but he wasn't an artist at first; he was more an illustrator. He was always surrounded by about…

— Claes Oldenburg

Andy [Warhol] put on his fey kind of act, but he wanted to be number one and he succeeded. But you never know. Fifty…

— Bob Colacello

The camera was another weapon in the wars of domination.

— Lucy R. Lippard

When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polke, Rauschenberg, Warhol.

— Wolfgang Tillmans

The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At best, the picture leaves a vague blur…

— Denis Donoghue

After the war, photography came alive, in part because everybody started to use the 35mm camera, and worked on the street instead of in…

— Robert Benton

He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find…

— Richard Schickel