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If I ever have to cast an acting role, I want the wrong person for the part. I can never visualize t...

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A Retrospective

Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is o...

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I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on t...

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting at...

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Land really is the best art.

After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex.

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer tr...

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Art is what you get away with

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

You know it's ART, when the check clears.

Business art is the step that comes after art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finis...

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People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way thing...

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Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so qui...

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I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.

Kiss me with your eyes.

I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.

I think they should have movies in restaurants. I can't believe that so many people get together jus...

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You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumo...

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People should fall in love with their eyes closed.

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be fa...

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It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They ...

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I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, ...

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You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Everybody must have a fantasy.

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

The child-like, gum-chewing naïveté , the glamour rooted in despair, the self admiring carelessness,...

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Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So wh...

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The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it.

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Andy Warhol

I always notice flowers.

Andy Warhol's Party Book

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before t...

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Andy Warhol in His Own Words

Art is what you can get away with.

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whethe...

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Art? That's a man's name.

In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art. The b...

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I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own...

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I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumo...

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I always hear myself saying, 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never k...

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art a...

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Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do som...

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Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They ...

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An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reaso...

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Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets

Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be fa...

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I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happeni...

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Just because people throw it out and don't have any use for it, doesn't mean it's garbage.

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art.

Some day each of us will be famous for fifteen minutes.

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers bu...

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I am a deeply superficial person.

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

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Andy Warhol

Artist

Born: 1928-08-06

Died: 1987-02-22

Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola; 6 August 1928 – 22 February 1987) was an American painter, filmmaker, publisher, actor and major figure in the Pop Art movement.More