EMILE DE ANTONIO ON ANDY WARHOL AND POLITICS

«Andy denies it. But he does have politics. I think it's very hard to be the son of Czech immigrants, when your father was a manual worker, living in Pittsburgh, not to develop some political ideas. But because in Andy's case they're other ideas that enter into the context, I think working in fashion as long as he did tented to diminish his political ideas. You know I was a friend of Andy when he first began to paint. Andy used to show me his paintings and ask me what do you think of this, what do you think of that?

Emile De Antonio
Interview magazine
VOL 1 NO 3 p.8