GEE....

Chuck Close recalls seeing a show of Warhol’s Heinz Ketchup and Brillo boxes in 1964, when he was a graduate student at Yale: “It was a mindblower.” Jeff Koons reveals, “Where I’ve been inspired and impressed by Andy is in the sense of economy, of getting more out of something than is put in.” Julian Schnabel says, “When we look at what people are doing now, over the past 20 years, I don’t know that I have seen anything that he didn’t do. He is a giant.” What would Andy say? Probably something like “Oh, gee. Oh, wow. I’m really, really up there now.”

-Bob Colacello
 Vanity Fair
October 2012