Andy Warhol Quotes

• Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

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• People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

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• My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person.

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• Land really is the best art.

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•  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.

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• It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor’s finger.

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• Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

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  Topics in Life

• In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

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• If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it.

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• I’ve decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.

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• I’m the type who’d be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn’t going to. I’m the type who’d like to sit home and watch every party that I’m invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

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• I’m bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is “In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.”

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• 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.

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  Topics in Money

• I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell?

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• I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

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• 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. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

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• I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

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• I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

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• I like boring things.

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• I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

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Andy Warhol (56)

Birth:	6th August, 1928
Death:	22nd February, 1987
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Artist

About

Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist. The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives. It is the largest museum in the United States dedicated to a single artist. Warhol's art encompassed many forms of media, including hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music. He founded Interview Magazine and was the author of numerous books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism: The Warhol Sixties.

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