Andy Warhol Quotes

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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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Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what." That's one of my favorite things to say. "So what." "My mother didn't love me." So what. "My husband won't ball me." So what. "I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what. I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.

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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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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

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If an artist can't do anymore, then he should just quit; and an artist ought to be able to change his style without feeling bad. I heard that Lichtenstein said he might not be painting comic strips a year of two from now [1963]. I think that would be so great, to be able to change styles. And I think that's what's going to happen; that's going to be the whole new scene.

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

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My image is a statement of the symbols of the harsh, impersonal products and brash materialistic objects on which America is built today. It is a projection of everything that can be bought and sold, the practical but impermanent symbols that sustain us.

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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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I think it would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

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

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I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could 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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