"Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it."
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"I'm seeking out a new way to live and if it's surfing, that's the way I'll do it. I'll be a surfer for the rest of my life."
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"I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'"
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"Don't think about making art, just get it done."
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"My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person."
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"I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordina ry."
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"Bad taste makes the day go by faster."
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"Maybe the reason my memory is so bad is that I always do at least two things at once. It's easier to forget something you only half-did or quarter did."
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"I never think that people die. They just go to department stores."
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"It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger."
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"Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist."
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"James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time."
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"The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones . . ."
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"Edward Smith: What do you think is the characteristic of a really nice person? Some people you obviously do like more than others. Andy Warhol: Ummm, well, if they talk a lot. ES: What, and don't make you talk? AW: Yeah, yes, that's a really nice person."
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"I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well."
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"Exposure and attention make a work famous - the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves."
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"I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up."
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"If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art."
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"I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed."
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"The wide multitude wanted to seem contrarian. It meant that this type of nonconformism had to be mass-produced."
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