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| An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them. Andy Warhol Art is what you can get away with. Andy Warhol Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life…Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television. Andy Warhol Referring to the attempt on his life by Valerie Solanas in 1968 Being born is like being kidnapped and then sold into slavery. Andy Warhol Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Andy Warhol Buying is much more American than thinking and I'm as American as they come. Andy Warhol Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. Andy Warhol Drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to be to be, the way some people still want them to be, and the way some women will actually want to be. Drags are ambulatory archives of ideal moviestar womanhood. They perform a documentary service, usually consecrating their lives to keeping the glittering alternative alive and available for (not-too-close) inspection. Andy Warhol Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details. Andy Warhol On being admitted to hospital two days before his death Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight. Andy Warhol Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet Andy Warhol I am a deeply superficial person. Andy Warhol I like boring things. Andy Warhol I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. Andy Warhol I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work', because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep. Andy Warhol I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own. Andy Warhol I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me. Andy Warhol I used to think that everybody was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell? Andy Warhol I'm confused about who the news belongs to. I always have it in my head that if you name's in the news, then the news should be paying you. Because it's your news and they're taking it and selling it as their product…If people didn't give the news their news, and if everybody kept their news to themselves, the news wouldn't have any news. Andy Warhol If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, there I am. There's nothing behind it. Andy Warhol In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. Andy Warhol Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves? Andy Warhol It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it. Everybody has their own America, and then they have the pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see. Andy Warhol Making money is art and working is art. And good business is the best art. Andy Warhol My image is a statement of the symbols of the harsh, impersonal products and brash materialistic objects on which America is built today. It is a projection of everything that can be bought and sold, and practical but impermanent symbols that sustain us. Andy Warhol Sex is most exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets. Andy Warhol Sex is the biggest nothing of all time. Andy Warhol Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to earn how to be babies longer. Andy Warhol Switzerland is my favorite place now, because it's so - nothing. There is absolutely nothing to do. Andy Warhol The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey. Andy Warhol The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. Andy Warhol The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. Andy Warhol There are beautiful sounds in rock. Very lazy, dreamlike noises. You can forget about the lyrics in most songs. Just dig the noise, and you're got our sound…We're musical primitives. Andy Warhol They say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. Andy Warhol Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that seems to be what is happening. Andy Warhol |
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