Commercial Art Quotes

• 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.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Business, Design

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I loved working when I worked at commercial art and they told you what to do and how to do it and all you had to do was correct it and they'd say yes or no. The hard thing is when you have to dream up the tasteless things to do on your own.

  Andy Warhol

  Dream, Art, Things To Do

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Want, Steps

  Andy Warhol, Rainer Crone (1987). “Andy Warhol: A Picture Show by the Artist”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Business, Creativity

  In Observer 1 Mar. 1987

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

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Powerful, Writing

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• Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.

  Andy Warhol

  Reality, Love Is, Fantasy Love

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Long, Looks

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  I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

  Andy Warhol

  Beautiful, Artist, Hollywood

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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.

  Andy Warhol

  Party, Home, Long

  Andy Warhol (2015). “America”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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.

  Andy Warhol

  War, Live Life, Television Watching

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

  Andy Warhol

  Country, Artist, America

  Andy Warhol, Annette Michelson, B. H. D. Buchloh (2001). “Andy Warhol”, p.86, MIT Press

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

  Andy Warhol

  Art, War, People

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.157, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

  Andy Warhol

  War, Artist, Repeats

  Jane Dillenberger, Andy Warhol (1998). “The Religious Art of Andy Warhol”, Burns & Oates

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

  Andy Warhol

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

  Andy Warhol

  Thinking, People, Emotion

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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.

  Andy Warhol

  Running, Gambling, America

  Andy Warhol (2015). “America”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.

  Andy Warhol

  Artist, Stink, Mass

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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.

  Andy Warhol

  Love, Reality, Opposites

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.'

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Bored, Use

  Andy Warhol's Exposures (1979) "Studio 54"

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• The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

  Andy Warhol

  Opposites, Two, Fantasy Love

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

  Andy Warhol

  Baby, War, People

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Andy Warhol

  Beautiful, Art, Nature

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

  Andy Warhol

  Funny, Dog, Art

  Andy Warhol, Bob Colacello (1979). “Andy Warhol's exposures”

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• When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people.

  Andy Warhol

  Funny, Witty, Caring

  "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again".

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• 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.

  Andy Warhol

  War, Sleep, Thinking

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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