Andy Warhol Quotes

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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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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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An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he—for some reason—thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

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The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can't be on your own, which is always so much better.

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Space is all one space and thought is all one thought, but my mind divides its spaces into spaces into spaces and thoughts into thoughts into thoughts. Like a large condominium. Occasionally I think about the one Space and the one Thought, but usually I don't. Usually I think about my condominium.

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

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

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

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I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.

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

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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. I don't even taste any of the other pieces, I just want to finish and throw the box away and not have to have it on my mind any more. I would rather either have it now or know I'll never have it so I don't have to think about it. That's why some days I wish I were very very old-looking so I wouldn't have to think about getting old-looking.

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After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex. Of course, for some people it isn't work because they need the exercise and they've got the energy for the sex and the sex gives them even more energy. Some people get energy from sex and some people lose energy from sex. I have found that it's too much work. But if you have the time for it, and if you need that exercise—then you should do it. But you could really save yourself a lot of trouble either way by first figuring out whether you're an energy-getter or an energy-loser. As I said, I'm an energy-loser. But I can understand it when I see people running around trying to get some.

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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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Maybe the reason my memory is so bad is that I always do at least two things at once. It's easier to forget something you only half-did or quarter did.

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The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.

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We went to see 'Dr No' [first James Bond film, 1962] at Fort-Second Street. It's a fantastic movie, so cool. We walked outside and somebody threw a cherry bomb right in front of us, in this bog crowd. And there was blood. I saw blood on people and all over. I felt like I was bleeding all over. I saw in the paper last week that there are more people throwing them - it's just part of the scene - and hurting people. My show in Paris is to be called 'Death in America'. I'll show the 'Electric-chair' pictures and the Dogs in Birmingham and car wrecks and some suicide pictures.

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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.

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

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I know a girl who just looks at her face in the medicine cabinet mirror and never looks below her shoulders, and she's four or five hundred pounds but she doesn't see all that, she just sees a beautiful face and therefore she thinks she's a beauty. And therefore, I think she's a beauty, too, because I usually accept people on the basis of their self-images, because their self-images have more to do with the way they think than their objective-images do.

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

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If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface; of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it... I see everything that way, the surface of things, a kind of mental Braille. I just pass my hands over the surface of things.

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Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it's different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are white, and vice-versa.

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Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

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Publicity is like eating peanuts. Once you start you can't stop.

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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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Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that.

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But I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party

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You wouldn't believe how many people will hang a picture of an electric chair in their room – especially if the color of the picture matches the curtains.

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I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

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