Victor Bokris, Warhol Biographer, on location Chelsea Hotel, New York City.
“People would say that everything Andy did visually was based on photography. Which is true. Photography is the basis of his mentality almost. The actual photograph and everything. Equally, he was interested in recording voices, and he really had a very good sense of how to do that badly in films and how to do it very well in interviews...and so on.
I would say that the Factory, from the moment it opened it’s doors was one of the most intelligent art communes in the world...compared to the Bauhaus say, early on, or whatever earlier examples you have of that. It was on a very high level. A think tank, a communal, artistic gathering place.”