OVER & OVER

"It was his spontaneous intuition that not to be received as an image in the common consciousness is to be bereft of the only reality that matters. This thought may be enlisted to explain his propensity to repeat, over and over, the same image of the same personality -- Marilyn, Liz, Jackie, Elvis -- as if the quantity of iterated images increased the substance, in the only way possible, of those who had become labels for themselves."

- Art critic Arthur Danto