I feel pretty confident that if Warhol was alive today, he would be hyper-critical of Banksy as derivative, innocuous, conformist, mechanical, and generally ugly.
Frankly, Warhol, like Chuck Palahniuk, would probably be endorsing me as the relevant and interesting counter-culture icon.
If some Jew journalist said “you know Anglin said you should be stuffed in an oven, right?” he’d say something like, “this would be sort of an interesting experience, I think, I’ve never felt anything like that, and I don’t know much about it, but it sounds fascinating. Flattering, really. A fascinating energy, and I appreciate that sort of thing, though I can’t say I could ever feel close to it, it is more something that you feel a resonance from, and just try to absorb with a part of yourself that you’ve never been very in touch with.”
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