It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.
ANDY WARHOLDon’t think about making art, just get it done.
More Andy Warhol Quotes
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I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up.
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I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.
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I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
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I think everybody should like everybody.
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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 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 moment you label something, you take a step-I mean, you can never go back again to seeing it unlabelled.
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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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Success is when the checks don’t bounce.
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But I always say, one’s company, two’s a crowd, and three’s a party
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I am a deeply superficial person.
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The interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me to say and I’ll repeat them after him. I think that would be so great because I’m so empty I just can’t think of anything to say.
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I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.
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The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.
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I wonder if it’s possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.
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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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Perception precedes reality.
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Why do people think artists are special? It’s just another job.
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People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.
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I really do live for the future, because when I’m eating a box of candy, I can’t wait to taste the last piece.
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When you stop wanting something, you get it.
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Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
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Don’t think about making art, just get it done.
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I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.
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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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