When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be a boss. A boss who could tell me what to do, because that makes everything easy when you’re working.
ANDY WARHOLMy 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.
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 broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is.
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You have to do stuff that average people don’t understand because those are the only good things.
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The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.
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Art is what you can get away with.
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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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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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I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die.
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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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But I always say, one’s company, two’s a crowd, and three’s a party
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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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I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.
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I’m really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts
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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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