The Linear Progress of Western Painting

"There is no linear progress. Why do we assume that it's going to continue? Oh, only because we like novelty change, variety, diversity," he says. Warhol took colors that had been there since the beginning and put them together in a way that had never been put together before. He then eliminated the most authoritative thing of all in Western painting, which is the brush. "No paintings that ever looked that way in the history of the world ever."