MALANGA: What was the motive behind repeating the same image more than once in a painting?
WARHOL: I don't really know or remember. I think, at the time, I started repeating the same image because I liked the way the repetition changed the same image Also, I felt at the time, as I do now, that people can look at and absorb more than one image at a time.
I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews. Thirty Seven Conversations with the Pop Master Edited by Kenneth Goldsmith (individual writer-interviews are named in these excerpts).
From an interview with Gerard Malanga in 1971.
