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
Quotes
331
Rank
#285

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"I'm confused about who the news belongs to. I always have it in my head that if your name's in the news, then the news should be paying you. Because it's your news and they're taking it and selling it as their product. ...If people didn't give the news their news, and if everybody kept their news to themselves, the news wouldn't have any news."

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"Sports figures are to the '70s what movie stars were to the '60s."

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"Free countries are great, because you can actually sit in somebody else's space for a while and pretend you're a part of it. You can sit in the Plaza Hotel and you don't even have to live there. You can just sit and watch the people go by."

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"The President has so much good publicity potential that hasn't been exploited. He should just sit down one day and make a list of all the things that people are embarrassed to do that they shouldn't be embarrassed to do, and then do them all on television."

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"I've been invited to the White House about five times. I think the greatest thing would be if they actually invited everybody to the White House every night... they'd just take about 500 people a night. Everybody would just love this country because it's so thrilling to go there. It really is."

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"I do mostly portraits. So it's just people's faces, not really any ideas."

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"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'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody."

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

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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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