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“Earlier artists, like Monet, had painted the same motif in series in order to display minute discriminations of perception, the shift of light and color from hour to hour on a haystack, and how these could be recorded by the subtlety of eye and hand. Warhol's thirty-two soup cans are about nothing of the kind. They are about sameness (though with different labels): same brand, same size, same paint surface, same fame as product. They mimic the condition of mass advertising, out of which his sensibility had grown. They are much more deadpan than the object which may have partly inspired them…” — From “American Visions” by Robert Hughes
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