“I didn’t feel for Warhol the way Robert [Mapplethorpe] did. His work reflected a culture I wanted to avoid. I hated the soup and felt little for the can. I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it.”
Patti Smith
more infosource: Just Kids (New York: Ecco, 2010), 69.
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category: Andy Warhol, art, mirror, soup can
medium: memoir
“The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people’s faces, because that’s the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mirror about.”
Gil Scott-Heron
more infosource: “New York is Killing Me,” by Alex Wilkinson, The New Yorker, August 9, 2010, 26–32.
category: expression, identity, mirror, musician, self
medium: magazine profile
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