Andy Warhol's Quotes

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

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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.

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Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

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

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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.

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Art is what you can get away with.

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

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I always hear myself saying, 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about.

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In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

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Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

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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'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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Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don't know whether I'm alive or whether I died. I wasn't afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn't feel fear. But I am afraid. I don't understand why.

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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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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.

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

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I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.

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Land really is the best art.

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When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

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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.

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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?

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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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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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I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

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I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.

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I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

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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.

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