Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
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Quotes by Andy Warhol
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What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Art is what you can get away with.
Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.
If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.
I love Los Angeles, and I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.
In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.
People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal.
Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
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.
We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.
Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.
Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.
I think they should have movies in restaurants. I can't believe that so many people get together just to sit there. It's so abstract... isn't it abstract? What are these people sitting here watching?
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.
I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'
Everyone needs a fantasy.
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