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1970s
It is a machine that turns one light into everybody, which is my favorite kind of arithmetic. The Factory was already silver so this just kept the theme...
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1968
I put a tape recorder on a person for a whole day and printed every word including the typos. People said it was unreadable. That was the point....
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2026
A calendar is a good painting because it changes by itself. You flip a page and there is a new picture and you did nothing to make it....
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2006
They put my whole life in one enormous book so you can have the Factory on your coffee table. I like that it is big and flat and...
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1967
I made Marilyn after she died because a face repeated in bright color stops being sad and starts being wallpaper. It looks best on a wall where you...
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1986
I turned my own face into a print so I could hang myself on the wall like everyone else. The wig stands straight up like I got a...
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1979
I took my camera everywhere and photographed everybody at every party. The pictures are in here with my captions about who was there. Nothing happened but I wrote...
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2004
I started Interview so I could get into parties and ask people almost nothing. This book puts all the covers and conversations in one place. It is my...
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2015
I took a Polaroid of everybody who came by. A picture means you know somebody existed. Here they all are in one book so the wall gets crowded...
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1997
Before the cans I drew shoes for the magazines and they paid me by the shoe. This little book is the closet I had before I had a...
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1960s
I like buying canvas in bulk because I never make just one of anything. A stack of blank white ones is already a series, you just have not...
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2023
I did a banana once for a record and people peeled it. This one just lights up. A banana on the wall doing nothing all day is exactly...
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1978
I made a Polaroid of Debbie Harry and then a painting and she never stopped being a painting. This record sounds like downtown when downtown was still ours....
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1964
I built the box out of plywood and painted it to look exactly like the store one and put it in a gallery. People got angry. The soap...
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1960s
The black turtleneck disappears in a photograph so the silver hair just floats there. I want to be all head and no body when someone takes my picture....
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1934
I painted the tomato but I ate the chicken noodle. It is the same red and white label doing the same quiet work on a shelf. A can...
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1962
My mother gave it to me and I never stopped. Same can, same red, same soup. A president drinks the exact same soup as you and neither of...
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1972
I got a tape recorder and my whole life turned into fiction. A problem is not a problem once it is a good tape. I called it my...
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1978
The whole band dressed like they were going somewhere better than you, and they usually were. I put this on and the room takes care of itself. It...
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1963
The most money anyone ever spent to make one woman look like a coin. I painted Liz because she was always almost dying and always on the cover....
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1962
The President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and you can drink Coke. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money gets you a better one...
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1960s
The canvas sneaker is just an empty canvas you lace to your foot. I liked mine white so they got dirty and turned into a diary. Everybody owns...
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1960s
Every can is yellow and every can is corn and no can is a surprise. That is the whole appeal. I like a vegetable that has already decided...
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1967
Motown made the same beautiful thing over and over and sold a million of each one. That is my whole philosophy in a gold dress. I could listen...
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2022
I said good business is the best art and making money is art. A dollar sign in neon is both at once. It just sits there being about...
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1979
Giorgio Moroder made a machine that sounds like it is out past its bedtime. I photographed Donna and she was very calm about being on the cover of...
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1982
Edie was my first superstar and everybody wanted to be her. This is her whole story told by the people who watched it happen. It is sad but...
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1936
They make the same plate in every loud color so the table becomes a chart. I would buy one of each and never match them, that is the...
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1973
I let them put my name on the front and Paul do the work in the back. It is disgusting and pretty at the same time, which is...
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1904
It is the loudest yellow on the table and it never tries. Ketchup gets all the attention and the mustard just waits next to it being that color....
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1960s
Under the silkscreen you still need real paint, thick and bright, blocked in like a billboard. This is the heavy stuff that holds its color and does not...
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1981
Grace turned herself into a poster and then recorded an album to match it. She looks like a Warhol I did not get to make, which bothers me...
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1970s
Halston dressed me and everybody I photographed. This book has all the clothes and the beautiful people wearing them. He made simple things and simple is the hardest.
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1964
I stacked the boxes to the ceiling. Ketchup is the same in every diner in every town and that is the closest thing we have to being equal....
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1900
It is the same bar it was before anyone was born and it comes in a box of thirty six identical ones. I like a candy that shows...
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1966
I wrote Truman fan letters before anyone knew my name. My first show was about him. He invented a way of telling the truth that felt like a...
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1971
I aimed it at everybody who walked into the Factory and pressed the button and thirty seconds later they were a portrait. No lighting, no waiting, no talent...
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1971
You cannot be famous without film. Load it, point it, shake it, and someone is immortal before the drink is finished. Buy more than you think you need....
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1950
The glass makes the color look serious even when it is only sugar. I line the bottles up and they are already a painting before anyone opens one....
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1980s
Jean-Michel came around and I liked him right away. This is all his paintings in one book from Taschen. He got famous fast and this is why.
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1931
Everyone owns it and nobody reads all of it and that is very honest. It is a portrait of American food with no pictures, just the same recipes...
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1970s
I never got on a horse but I always liked the boots. They make a good sound walking across the Factory floor. A cowboy in New York is...
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1906
The rooster on the front is more reliable than most people I know. It is the same flake in the same box every morning and I find that...
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1960s
A half frame gives you twice as many pictures and I never met a picture I did not want to take. I like a camera that just points...
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2011
Chic played while everyone at the Factory pretended not to dance. He was turned away at the door once and wrote a hit about it, which is the...
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1873
Everybody wears blue jeans, the president and the drag queen and the kid on the corner. I like things that everybody already has. A pair of 501s is...
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1962
You put the denim jacket over the denim pants and suddenly you have an outfit and you did nothing. I like clothes that make the getting dressed part...
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1960s
I use acrylic because it dries fast and I am impatient. The color sits flat like a soup label and does not pretend to be anything deeper. I...
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1955
I played her while I painted. She screams so beautifully you forget she is dying every single time. I like a professional. She was the most famous woman...
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1962
I like a face repeated until it stops meaning anything. Marilyn in four colors does that. After a while you stop seeing her and you only see the...
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