NORMAN MAILER VS ANDY WARHOL

«In fact as an artist Mailer's accomplishment has as much to do with that of Andy Warhol as with his fellow novelists in the sense that a large part of his artwork was his existence in the world. But where Warhol emptied his persona of any human agency achieving a kind of shimmering weightlessness Mailer always revealed the human mechanics that drove him. They were co-inventors of modern fame two sides of a coin».

-New York magazine
Nov 12 2007