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Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.

— Jeffrey Deitch

I don't think he'd [Andy Warhol] be that amazed because he was so driven to be the Picasso of the second half of the…

— Bob Colacello

That is what [Andy] Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting.

— Giorgio Armani

When I first came to New York, in the '70s, artists were certainly divided about the Andy Warhol persona, and about the work. I…

— Laurie Simmons

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

There was an exchange between me and Andy Warhol. We met, we liked each other, we appreciated each other. He would come to us…

— Pierre Berge

There is no comparison between him and me; he developed a whole new way of making art and he's clearly in a league of…

— Tracey Emin

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

Warhol had resonance because it was high art and low art. And you could argue about it endlessly.

— James Murphy

“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.”

— Oscar Wilde

Warhol took outcasts and made them into stars. There will never be another artist like him.

— Udo Kier

“This is why Warhol is not part of the history of art. He is, quite simply, part of the world. He does not represent…

— Jean Baudrillard