Andy Warhol

Let’s forget ourselves, dearest Richard, and become one with the Absolute, all together in the alltogether (sic).

— Yayoi Kusama in a 1968 open letter to U.S. President Richard Nixon offering to have sex with him if he stopped the Vietnam War.

To say they look like A.I.-generated images resulting from search terms ‘90s LES graffiti’ ‘Americana’ and ‘Disney nostalgia’ would be too generous. What they actually resemble is the kind of sanitized street art that’s sold on 53rd Street outside MoMA or on the sidewalk in SoHo — work aimed at tourists seeking an arty yet unchallenging New York souvenir, Bishop concluded.

— Claire Bishop, professor of art history at CUNY, in The New York Times

Suddenly they took me to an orphanage.

— Marilyn Monroe, in the BBC film Marilyn on Marilyn (1981) about her childhood