From an interview with Joseph Gelmis 1969. Gelmis is described as a Newsday magazine film critic. Page 161
G: There's an element of confession and of autobiography in almost everything you film. The people who act for you seem to be constantly confessing. What's your fascination with the confessional?
W: They're just people who talk a lot.
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7/8/09
EXCERPT from I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR - ANDY WARHOL
ANDY WARHOL interviewed by Gerard Malanga
pg 194
MALANGA: Do you feel you've changed the media?
WARHOL: No, I don't change the media, nor do I distinguish between my art and the media. I just repeat the media by utilizing the media for my work. I believe media is art.
PG 195 - 196
MALANGA: Why do you use a rubber stamp?
WARHOL: I don't always use a rubber stamp for my signature; but I turned towards the idea of a rubber stamp signature because I wanted to get away from style. I feel an artist's signature is part of style, and I don't believe in style. I don't want my art to have style.
MALANGA: Do you think of your self as media?
WARHOL: No one escapes the media. Media influences everyone. It's a very powerful weapon. George Orwell prophesied the potency of the media when he spoke of "Big Brother is watching you" in his visionary novel 1984.
From:
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).
pg 194
MALANGA: Do you feel you've changed the media?
WARHOL: No, I don't change the media, nor do I distinguish between my art and the media. I just repeat the media by utilizing the media for my work. I believe media is art.
PG 195 - 196
MALANGA: Why do you use a rubber stamp?
WARHOL: I don't always use a rubber stamp for my signature; but I turned towards the idea of a rubber stamp signature because I wanted to get away from style. I feel an artist's signature is part of style, and I don't believe in style. I don't want my art to have style.
MALANGA: Do you think of your self as media?
WARHOL: No one escapes the media. Media influences everyone. It's a very powerful weapon. George Orwell prophesied the potency of the media when he spoke of "Big Brother is watching you" in his visionary novel 1984.
From:
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).
1/4/09
EXCERPT from I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR - ANDY WARHOL
Page 167
G: is there a market for your films in colleges?
W: Yeah, that's where we get most of our films shown. I think movies are becoming novels and it's terrific that people like Norman mailer and Susan Sontag are doing movies now too. That's the new novel. Nobody's going to read any more. It's easier to make movies. The kind of movies that we're doing are like paperbacks. They're cheaper than big books. The kids at college don't have to read any more. They can look at movies or make them.
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 Joseph Gelmis in 1970.
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