Andy Warhol Quotes
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I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. 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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Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.
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I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.
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When I did my self-portrait, I left all the pimples out because you always should. Pimples are a temporary condition and they don't have anything to do with what you really look like. Always omit the blemishes-they're not part of the good picture you want.
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I'm seeking out a new way to live and if it's surfing, that's the way I'll do it. I'll be a surfer for the rest of my life.
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It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way.
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At the times in my life when I was feeling the most gregarious and looking for bosom friendships, I couldn't find any takers, so that exactly when I was alone was when I felt the most like not being alone... I became a loner in my own mind... I decided I'd rather be alone.
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People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there.
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Looking younger and being younger is the adolescence idea.
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The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.
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I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.
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The nicer I am, the more people think I'm lying.
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I never fall apart, because I never fall together.
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I think they should have movies in restaurants. I can't believe that so many people get together just to sit there. It's so abstract... isn't it abstract? What are these people sitting here watching?
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You could never be an adolescent if you don't look like one.
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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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Even beauties can be unattractive. If you catch a beauty in the wrong light at the right time, forget it. I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. I believe in plastic surgery.
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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.
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People in uniform always look so great.
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Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.
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Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.
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Sports figures are to the '70s what movie stars were to the '60s.
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What we're all looking for is someone who doesn't live there, just pays for it.
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When you work with people who misunderstand you, instead of getting transmissions, you get transmutations, and that's much more interesting in the long run.
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Two people kissing always look like fish.
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I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back.
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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've got your sound...We're musical primitives.
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I think every painting should be the same size and the same color so they're all interchangeable and nobody thinks they have a better painting or a worse painting.... Besides even when the subject is different, people want the same painting.
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Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
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Don't think about making art, just get it done.
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