I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.
ANDY WARHOLArt is what you can get away with.
More Andy Warhol Quotes
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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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I don’t know where the artificial stops and the real starts.
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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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When you stop wanting something, you get it.
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I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up.
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Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don’t know whether I’m alive or whether I died. I wasn’t afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn’t feel fear. But I am afraid. I don’t understand why.
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I don’t want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.
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Most people in America think Art is a man’s name.
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The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting.
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Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good-night.
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You’d be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.
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You need to let little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.
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The more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.
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Look poor, think rich.
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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.
ANDY WARHOL