"I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer."
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"So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good."
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"Pop art is about liking things."
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"Rodeo Drive is a giant butterscotch sundae."
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"The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey."
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"Security breeds stagnation."
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"My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. People are only glamorous if you don't see them. Like the movies used to make people years ago. There is something about people on screen that makes them so special; when you see them in person, they are so different and the whole illusion is gone."
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"If everybody's not a beauty, then nobody is"
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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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"It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it."
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"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks."
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"You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people."
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"I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money."
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"Switzerland is my favorite place now, because it's so - nothing. There is absolutely nothing to do."
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"Whenever I’m interested in something, I know the timing’s off, because I’m always interested in the right thing at the wrong time. I should just be getting interested after I’m not interested any more."
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"It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way."
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"The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will"
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"Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."
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"Success is what sells."
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"The interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me to say and I’ll repeat them after him. I think that would be so great because I’m so empty I just can’t think of anything to say."
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