I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.
ANDY WARHOLBeing born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
More Andy Warhol Quotes
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I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.
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I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.
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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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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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If there’s ever a problem, I film it and it’s no longer a problem. It’s a film.
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I always notice flowers.
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Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
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I don’t know where the artificial stops and the real starts.
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I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die.
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The reason I’m painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.
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A friend of mine always says, ‘Women love me for the man I’m not.’
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Fashion wasn’t what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.
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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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I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up.
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Fashion is more art than art is.
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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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I think anybody can take a good picture. My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous. It’s being in the right place at the wrong time.
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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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The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.
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Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good-night.
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Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.
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You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.
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Remember, they’ve never seen you before in their life.
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The nicer I am, the more people think I’m lying.
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A picture means I know where I was every minute. That’s why I take pictures. It’s a visual diary.
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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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