Andy Warhol Quotes & Sayings

#1. Sociological critics are waste makers.

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#2. The nicer I am, the more people think I'm lying.

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#3. Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button.

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#4. The world fascinates me.

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#5. It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way.

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#6. I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me.

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

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#8. I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.

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#9. I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.

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#10. I do mostly portraits. So it's just people's faces, not really any ideas.

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#11. When the Woolworth's-Hot-Fudge-Sundae switch goes on, then I know I really have something.

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#12. 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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#13. Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

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#14. If you can convince yourself that you look fabulous, you can save yourself the trouble of primping.

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#15. I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. 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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#16. You know it's ART, when the check clears.

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#17. The President has so much good publicity potential that hasn't been exploited. He should just sit down one day and make a list of all the things that people are embarrassed to do that they shouldn't be embarrassed to do, and then do them all on television.

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#18. Day after day I look in the mirror and I still see something

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#19. The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

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#20. I love going out every night. It's so exciting.

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#21. Everybody must have a fantasy.

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#22. I like to work when I'm not working - do something that may not be considered work, but to me it's work. Getting exercise by going to the grocery store.

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#23. I will find your books and review with nastiness.

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#24. After Wakefield Poole's films, mine are unnecessary and a bit naive, don't you think?

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#25. I'm a deeply superficial person.

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#26. It's not what you are that counts, it's what they think you are.

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#27. I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.

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#28. Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

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#29. The only time I ever want to be something is outside a party so I can get in.

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#30. When you do something exactly wrong, you always turn up something.

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#31. That's the hard part of overdosing on cherries-you have all the pits to tell you exactly how many you ate. Not more or less. Exactly. One-seed fruits really bother me for that reason. That's why I'd always rather eat raisins than prunes. Prune pits are even more imposing than cherry pits.

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#32. Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

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#33. Everyone needs a fantasy.

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#34. I used to cut out paper dolls.

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#35. Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art

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#36. Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

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#37. I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

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#38. You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

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#39. People are always calling me a mirror and if a mirror looks into a mirror, what is there to see?

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#40. I like church. It's empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York.

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#41. I went to vote once, but I got too scared. I couldn't decide whom to vote for.

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

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#43. I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.

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#44. I loved working when I worked at commercial art and they told you what to do and how to do it and all you had to do was correct it and they'd say yes or no. The hard thing is when you have to dream up the tasteless things to do on your own.

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#45. What we're all looking for is someone who doesn't live there, just pays for it.

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#46. All photography is Pop, and all photographers are crazy ... they feel guilty since they don't have to do very much - just push a button.

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#47. James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time.

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#48. If you wear a wig, everybody notices. But if you then dye the wig, people notice the dye.

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#49. Success is when the checks don't bounce.

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#50. And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.

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#51. I think pot should be legal. I don't smoke it, but I like the smell of it.

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#52. I always notice flowers.

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#53. I never read. I just look at pictures.

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#54. I read an article on me once that described my machine-method of silk-screen copying and painting: 'What a bold and audacious solution, what depths of the man are revealed in this solution!' What does that mean?

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#55. My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street.

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#56. Good business is the best art of all.

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#57. I used to drink Coke all the time. It was so good. It gives you a lot of energy.

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#58. The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is

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

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#60. Don't think about making art ...

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#61. I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back.

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

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#63. If there's ever a problem, I film it and it's no longer a problem. It's a film.

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#64. I think it would be great to make a $2 million or $3 million art movie where nobody would really have to go to it. I thought that would be a good project to work on ... do something really artistic.

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#65. Think rich, look poor.

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#66. When I look at things, I always see the space they occupy. I always want the space to reappear, to make a comeback, because it's lost space when there's something in it.

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#67. I get so tired of painting. I've been trying to give it up all the time, if we could just make a living out of movies or the newspaper business or something. It's so boring, painting the same picture over and over.

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#68. Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad.

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#69. At the times in my life when I was feeling the most gregarious and looking for bosom friendships, I couldn't find any takers, so that exactly when I was alone was when I felt the most like not being alone ... I became a loner in my own mind ... I decided I'd rather be alone.

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#70. New York restaurants are about selling atmospheres.

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#71. I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

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#72. I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is.

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#73. Pop art is for everyone.

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#74. Pop art is about liking things.

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#75. Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

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#76. Rodeo Drive is a giant butterscotch sundae.

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#77. Security breeds stagnation.

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#78. I wake up every morning. I open my eyes and think: here we go again.

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#79. I love Los Angeles, and I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

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#80. Traveling makes time go fast. So maybe traveling in space will give people time.

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#81. The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it's a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor.

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#82. I always hear myself saying, 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about.

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#83. Switzerland is my favorite place now, because it's so - nothing. There is absolutely nothing to do.

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#84. I'm seeking out a new way to live and if it's surfing, that's the way I'll do it. I'll be a surfer for the rest of my life.

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#85. People do tend to avoid new realities; they'd rather just add details to the old ones. It's as simple as that.

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#86. I wish I hadn't made so many images.

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#87. I love the English language just like I love all American things. But I confess that I don't feel confident using complex sentences or big words, hence my famous minimally expressive style - all the "gees" and laconic answers to interviewers. Most of all, I have developed listening as an art form.

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#88. Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, I knew he loved me when de didn't come in my mouth.

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#89. New things are always better than old things.

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#90. So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.

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