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

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"My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat or in film's case 'run on' manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing."

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"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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"When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be a boss. A boss who could tell me what to do, because that makes everything easy when you're working."

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"I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is."

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"I always think I don't do the first one good, so I try to do it more."

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"At the times in my life when I was feeling the most gregarious and looking for bosom friendships, I couldn't find any takers, so that exactly when I was alone was when I felt the most like not being alone... I became a loner in my own mind... I decided I'd rather be alone."

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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 can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own."

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"The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do."

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"The girls in California were probably prettier in a standard sense than the New York girls--blonder and in better health, I guess; but I still preferred the way the girls in New York looked--stranger and more neurotic (a girl always looked more beautiful and fragile when she was about to have a nervous breakdown)."

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"People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly."

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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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"Most people in America think Art is a man's name."

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"I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning."

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