Andy Warhol

Artist, Filmmaker

Andy Warhol was a leading figure in the pop art movement, known for his innovative works that challenged traditional notions of art and consumerism.

Born
August 6, 1928
Died
February 22, 1987
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331
Rank
#285

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"When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them. “A man is what he thinks about all day long.” [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. Aldous Huxley"

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"If everyone isn't beautiful, then no one is."

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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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"I'm starting to think that the men are the ones who should wear the big jewelry because they can defend it better when it's robbed. They should wear the big diamonds. You can show how much of a man you are, because the bigger the diamond, the stronger you have to be to defend it."

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"I like comedy, not violence, but violence is making a lot of money. But comedy is what I like."

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"The clothes of Courreges are so nice."

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"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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"[My vision of America is] a good vision. Actually the best is on TV. I wanted to shoot all the pictures off the TV. No one would have known the difference."

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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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"What I've always wished I'd invented was paper underwear, even knowing that the idea never took off when they did come out with it. I still think it's a good idea, and I don't know why people resist it when they've accepted paper napkins and paper plates and paper curtains and paper towels-it would make more sense not to have to wash out underwear than not to have to wash out towels."

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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 can't bear to let all this beautiful talk go by. Everybody says... fantastic things. People are always putting it down as an invasion of privacy, but I think everyone should be bugged all the time... bugged and photographed."

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"I just [take pictures] because the camera is something to carry around in my pocket."

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"I admit to having worn suede and leather pants myself for a while, but you just never feel clean, and it's degenerate, anyway, to wear animal skins.... So I went back to bluejeans after my degenerate period."

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"Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?"

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"I don’t know anybody who doesn’t have a fantasy. Everybody must have a fantasy."

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

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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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