Andy Warhol Quotes

• I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.

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• I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.

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• I always thought I’d like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I’d like it to say “figment.”

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  Tags in Like

• 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.

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• Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

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• Employees make the best dates. You don’t have to pick them up and they’re always tax-deductible.

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• Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone’s got to take care of all your details.

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• During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don’t think they’ve ever remembered.

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• Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

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• Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

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  Topics in Business

• Some day each of us will be famous for fifteen minutes.

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  Tags in Fame, Celebrity

• I am a deeply superficial person.

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  Tags in Character, Personality

• Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they’ll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

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  Topics in Children

  Tags in Adulthood, People

• They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change/Growth, Time

• Employees make the best dates. You don’t have to pick them up and they’re always tax-deductible.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Always, Up, Dates, Employees, Best, Them, Make

• An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.

  Andy Warhol

  Topics in Art, Humor

  Tags in Produces, Things, Artist, Need, Somebody

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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