Andy Warhol Quotes

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Andy Warhol

Profession : Artist

Birth : August 6, 1928

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too.

Andy Warhol

Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.

Andy Warhol

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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I like to work when I'm not working - do something that may not be considered work, but to me it's work. Getting exercise by going to the grocery store.

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Checks aren't money.

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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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Fantasy love is much better than reality love.

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

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People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal.

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I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.

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Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil - of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them and tape-record them. But I didn't think of myself as evil - just realistic.

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Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.

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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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If you wear a wig, everybody notices. But if you then dye the wig, people notice the dye.

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I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.

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I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike.

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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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I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.

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My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.

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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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