Andy Warhol Quotes

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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.

Andy Warhol
I think video is the best market. When the cassette market comes out, if you just do movies that nobody else can do, that'll be the new way.

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I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.

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Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.

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Nutty people are always writing me. I always think I must be on some nutty mailing list.

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In the early days of film, fans used to idolize a whole star - they would take one star and love everything about that star... Today people can idolize a star in one area and forget about him in another. A big rock star might sell millions and millions of records, but then if he makes a bad movie... forget it.

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

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I'd rather do new stuff. The old stuff is better to talk about than to see. It always sounds better than it really is.

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I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up.

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The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones...

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The lobbies are always the best-looking place in the hotel-you wish you could bring out a cot and sleep in them. Compared to the lobby, your room always looks like a closet.

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One person in the 60s fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love

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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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Even beauties can be unattractive. If you catch a beauty in the wrong light at the right time, forget it. I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. I believe in plastic surgery.

Andy Warhol
You have to hang on in periods when your style isn't popular, because if it's good, it'll come back, and you'll be a recognized beauty once again.

Andy Warhol
When I was in the hospital after I was shot they gave me drugs, but it was so great to get off those.

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I think every painting should be the same size and the same color so they're all interchangeable and nobody thinks they have a better painting or a worse painting.... Besides even when the subject is different, people want the same painting.

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I thought that young people had more problems than old people...Then I looked around and saw that everybody who looked young had young problems and that everybody who looked old had old problems.

Andy Warhol
You can be just as faithful to a place or a thing as you can to a person. A place can really make your heart skip a beat, especially if you have to take a plane to get there.

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When you work with people who misunderstand you, instead of getting transmissions, you get transmutations, and that's much more interesting in the long run.

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

Andy Warhol
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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I really hate heights. I always like to live on the first floor.

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The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.

Andy Warhol
Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil - of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them and tape-record them. But I didn't think of myself as evil - just realistic.

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The symptom of love is when some of the chemicals inside you go bad. So there must be something in love because your chemicals do tell you something.

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

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When I did my self-portrait, I left all the pimples out because you always should. Pimples are a temporary condition and they don't have anything to do with what you really look like. Always omit the blemishes-they're not part of the good picture you want.

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If you're traveling for five years or something like that, you're going somewhere. But five years are being used up, and you don't have to do anything. You just sit on the plane. That might make time go really fast.

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

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