I feel I'm very much a part of my times, of my culture, as much a part of it as rockets and television. He was an artist and yet he didn't paint things that artists usually paint. His subjects were cows, Coke bottles, Brillo boxes, movie stars, and historical figures. By painting pictures of images he saw every day, he made us stop and ponder the world around us. Andy Warhol took ordinary objects and elevated them to the level of art.
Life is rewarding simply as it is and everything is worthy of our attention.
He did not just paint pictures, he created a whole new way of looking at things and of looking at ourselves. The Cochran Collection holds a complete set of Warhol's last series Cowboys and Indians . Though not as well known as his earlier works, these prints are significant in their illumination of America's collective mythicizing of the west. The first print of the series, Indian Head Nickel, reproduces the familiar profile of an American Indian, which formerly appeared on the U.S. five-cent coin. In contrast to the Indian's fierce nobility is the taciturn self-satisfaction of General Custer , his arms folded and gaze directed toward the distance.