Andy Warhol
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NOTE: This is a speculative typing, so a limited sample of footage was used for this typing conclusion.
Warhol: "I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning."
Warhol: "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."
Warhol: "Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."
Warhol: "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."
Warhol: "I want to be a machine."
Warhol: "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."
Warhol: "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."
Warhol: "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."
Warhol: "I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work', because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep."
Warhol: "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."
Warhol: "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
Warhol: "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."
Warhol: "I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction."
Warhol: "An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."
Warhol: "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."
Warhol: "Art is what you can get away with."
Warhol: "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.'"
Warhol: "Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches."
Warhol: "The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting."
Warhol: "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."
Warhol: "In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."
Warhol: "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-ordinary."
Warhol: "I like boring things."
Warhol: "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details."
Warhol: "Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil - of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them and tape-record them. But I didn't think of myself as evil - just realistic."
Warhol: "I am a deeply superficial person."
Warhol: "If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it."