Andy Warhol Quotes

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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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Nothing is more bourgeois than to be afraid to look bourgeois.

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I don't believe in it, because you're not around to know that it's happened. I can't say anything about it because I'm not prepared for it.

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Somebody said that Bertolt Brecht [German socialist writer of political theater] wanted everybody to think alike. I want everybody to think alike. But Brecht wanted to do it through Communism, in a way. Russia is doing it under government. It's happening here [in America] all by itself without being under a strict government; so if it's working without trying, why can't it work without being Communist? Everybody looks alike and acts alike, and we're getting more and more that way.

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It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

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Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody.
Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about?
Andy Warhol: Yes, it's liking things.

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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 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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A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.

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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work" because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. 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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In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all the lighter things in life, which are the most important things, are put down.

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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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I was trying to think the other day about what you do now in America if you want to be successful. Before, you were dependable and wore a good suit. Looking around, I guess that today you have to do all the same things but not wear a good suit. I guess that's all it is. Think rich. Look poor.

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I don't feel like I get germs when I hold money. Money has a certain kind of amnesty. I feel, when I'm holding money, that the dollar bill has no more germs on it than my hands do. When I pass my hand over money, it becomes perfectly clean to me. I don't know where it's been - who's touched it and with what - but that's all erased the moment I touch it.

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I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so American.

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I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don't want to get too close; I don't like to touch things...

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

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

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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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The more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.

Andy Warhol
I will go to the Opening of Anything, including a Toilet Seat

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I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.

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