pop quotes

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable. SeeWilde 909:22.

- Leonard Baskin
  In Publisher's Weekly, 5  Apr.

Pop music is the classical music of now. See also Lennon 502:89.

- Sir (James) Paul McCartney
Quoted in Tony Palmer AllYou Need Is Love (1976).

   In England, pop art and fine art stand resolutely back to back.

- Colin MacInnes
England, Half English,'Pop Songs and Teenagers'.

The Pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split secondcomics, picnic tables, men's trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators,Coke bottlesall the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried so hard not to notice at all.

- Andy Warhol
Quoted in AndyWarhol and Pat Hackett POPism:TheWarhol'60s (1980).