1967
The same face in different lipstick
Andy Warhol Marilyn Poster Print
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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The Factory floor. Where the same thing got made twice.
1967
2006
Everything I made, too heavy to lift
Andy Warhol Giant Size (Phaidon)
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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1970s
For taping everybody all day long
Maxell UR Blank Audio Cassette Tape
The cassette is small so you forget it is running, which is how you get the good parts. I taped the phone calls and the lunches and the...
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1980s
Flat color you can hold like a pen
POSCA PC-5M Paint Marker Set
A paint marker is just acrylic that you do not have to think about, and I like not thinking. The color comes out flat and even and you...
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1960s
Blank rectangles waiting to be a soup
Arteza Stretched White Canvas Multi Pack
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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1965
My wife the tape recorder spins here
RecordingTheMasters LPR35 Reel to Reel Tape
I got a tape recorder in 1965 and my wife and I have been happy ever since, it goes everywhere with me. A reel spinning is better than...
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1960s
Two pictures for the price of one
Kodak Ektar H35 Half Frame Film Camera
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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1962
How I make the same thing twice
Speedball Deluxe Screen Printing Kit
I started silkscreening in 1962 because I wanted an assembly line, not a hand. You pull the squeegee and the same face comes out again and again and...
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1950s
Where the shoes and cats went first
Strathmore 400 Series Sketch Pad
I filled books like this with shoes and cats named Sam before anyone paid me for it. The paper is cheap enough that you are not afraid to...
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1950s
For the blotted line before the machine
Winsor and Newton Winton Brush Set
Before the silkscreen I was a commercial artist and I drew shoes with a blotted line, so I know brushes. You want a few good ones and you...
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1960s
Flat color that dries before lunch
Liquitex BASICS Acrylic Paint Set
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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1960s
The good paint for the background layer
Golden Heavy Body Acrylic Introductory Set
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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