Andy Warhol

Artist

1928-08-06 – 1987-02-22

Quotes by Andy Warhol

• After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex.

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• Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

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• Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it.

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• Everybody must have a fantasy.

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• I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.

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• Art is what you get away with

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• I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art. The best art are those dime novels. People will put those books in a museum one day. Artists will make paintings of them. They're beautiful. And for everyone. That's how I want my art to be.

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• I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art.

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• You know it's ART, when the check clears.

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• The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

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• Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

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• An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

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• I just do art because I'm ugly and there's nothing else for me to do.

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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.

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• Just because people throw it out and don't have any use for it, doesn't mean it's garbage.

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• I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.

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• They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

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• I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should 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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• Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets

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• You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

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