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"Andy Warhol may have become a household name as he wanted to, he may have appeared on the TV show The Love Boat, and he may have hobnobbed with fancy folk as well as being a lighting rod for the underground. He may have made movies and written books, he may have been the force behind the magazine Interview, but first and foremost, he was an artist. It was all part of his art. Warhol was an artist who changed American culture. It will never look the same now that we have seen it through his eyes. Part of what he did was to re-present it in a way that seemed real to him. This is the point of art - to capture things as they are in their essence, and also to describe the world. Warhol described America in particular - and the paintbrush was just one of the tools with which he captured and changed our culture" (Ingrid Sischy, Interview 1996).
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