FROM MATISSE TO LOUIS B. MAYER

In 1966, at the Leo Castelli gallery in New York, Andy bid adieu to art again with a show of Siver Pillows filled with helium, which were meant to «fly away». And when he moved from the original silver-foiled Factory on East 47th street to 33 Union Square West, no place was set aside to paint, and no Warhol paintings hung on Warhol's walls. The man who had wanted to be Matisse now wanted to be Louis B. Mayer.

Bob Colacello
Holy Terror p.59