Voyeurism is a director’s job description. It’s an artist’s, too.
Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.
Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody. Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about? Andy Warhol: Yes, it’s liking things.
Business Art is the step that comes after Art.
I’m the type who’d be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn’t going to. I’m the type who’d like to sit home and watch every party that I’m invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.
Everything is beautiful. Pop is everything.
Uptown is for people who have already done something. Downtown is where they’re doing something now. I live uptown but I love downtown.
Fashion is more art than art is.
I really do live for the future, because when I’m eating a box of candy, I can’t wait to taste the last piece.
When the Woolworth’s-Hot-Fudge-Sundae switch goes on, then I know I really have something.
I loved working when I worked at commercial art and they told you what to do and how to do it and all you had to do was correct it and they’d say yes or no. The hard thing is when you have to dream up the tasteless things to do on your own.
My style was always to spread out rather than to move up.
If you can convince yourself that you look fabulous, you can save yourself the trouble of primping.
I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.
The wide multitude wanted to seem contrarian. It meant that this type of nonconformism had to be mass-produced.
I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don’t try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordina ry.
Look poor, think rich.
I love going out every night. It’s so exciting.
After Wakefield Poole’s films, mine are unnecessary and a bit naive, don’t you think?
What I was actually trying to do in my early movies was show how people can meet other people and what they can do and what they can say to each other. That was the whole idea: two people getting acquainted.