I’d asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, ’Well, what do you love most?’ That’s how I started painting money.

Warhol frames a pivotal artistic decision—making money imagery a subject—as the result of a practical, almost casual conversation rather than a grand aesthetic manifesto. The anecdote underscores his Pop strategy: treat the most ubiquitous, desire-laden symbols of American life (currency, commodities, celebrities) as legitimate fine-art subjects. The “what do you love most?” prompt collapses the distance between personal desire and cultural obsession, implying that money is both an intimate fixation and a public icon. It also hints at Warhol’s self-mythologizing: he presents his work as candidly motivated by love of money, while simultaneously critiquing how value, fame, and art are entangled.