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.
ANDY WARHOLYou have to do stuff that average people don’t understand because those are the only good things.
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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Exposure and attention make a work famous – the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.
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I always notice flowers.
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Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don’t have it.
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I wake up every morning. I open my eyes and think: here we go again.
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I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don’t want to get too close; I don’t like to touch things.
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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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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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The moment you label something, you take a step-I mean, you can never go back again to seeing it unlabelled.
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When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them.
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Perception precedes reality.
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Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That’s one of my favorite things to say. So what.
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Why do people think artists are special? It’s just another job.
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I am a deeply superficial person.
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Most people in America think Art is a man’s name.
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