"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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"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."
"Art? That's a man's name."
"Sociological critics are waste makers."
"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."
"I'm a deeply superficial person."
"Years later, I figured out why he (Ivan Karp) was such a successful art dealer-this may sound strange, but I believe it was because art was his second love. He seemed to love literature more, and he put the serious side of his nature into that...Some people are even better at their second love than their first, maybe because when they care too much, it freezes them, but knowing there's something they'd rather be doing gives them a certain freedom."
"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."
"Money has a certain kind of amnesty."
"The best museum is Bloomingdales."
"Everyone needs a fantasy."
"I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction."
"I will go to the Opening of Anything, including a Toilet Seat"
"Pop art is for everyone."
"I've never made the separation between, say, the museum and the hardware store. I mean, I enjoy both of them, and I want to combine the two."
"I want to be a machine."
"Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it."
"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."
"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, and practical but impermanent symbols that sustain us."
"Reruns are my favorite things on TV."
"Pop art is a way of liking things."