WARHOL COMPARING HIMSELF TO JASPER JOHNS

Andy Warhol: did you read in the Times today that a Jasper Johns painting sold for one million? Do you know Jasper Johns' paintings?

-Fred Dryer: I saw his »brooms» in the Times a couple of years ago. What makes a painting popular anyway?

-Andy Warhol: it was the Three Flags I guess.

-Fred Dryer: but since then his work has skyrocketed, hasn't it?

-Andy Warhol: well, he paints so few things a year. I try to paint one a minute.

-Interview magazine
 January 1981 p.20