Warhol Quotes

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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.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Hate, Creativity

  Christopher Makos, Andy Warhol (2003). “Warhol Memoir”

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• You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

  Andy Warhol

  Average, People, Being Different

  Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett (2009). “The Andy Warhol Diaries”, p.336, Hachette UK

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

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Ugly

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• 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.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Looks, Want

  Quoted in Free Press (Los Angeles), 17 Mar. 1967

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• Edward Smith: What do you think is the characteristic of a really nice person? Some people you obviously do like more than others. Andy Warhol: Ummm, well, if they talk a lot. ES: What, and don't make you talk? AW: Yeah, yes, that's a really nice person.

  Andy Warhol

  Nice, Thinking, People

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• It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Hero, Avant Garde

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• Hey, Cunningham - Andy Warhol called. You're at 14:55 and we're tickin' big-time here, Chachi.

  Dennis Miller

  Football, Hey, Cunninghams

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• In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace.

  J. G. Ballard

  War, Legs, Gestures

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• Curator Shantrelle P. Lewis left for Amsterdam an Andy Warhol fellow, and came back with a film in her pocket. Please support this confrontation of the Netherlands' violently passive aggressive racist traditions, by an American Southern, aggressive aggressive. She's a top notch thinker and lover of questions.

  dream hampton

  Support, Southern, Pockets

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• Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton gives us our vision of social eminence today are content to entrust their faces to Andy Warhol's mingily cosmetic Polaroidising, but one would bet they would rather go to Sargent.

  Robert Hughes

  Rhinos, Giving, Vision

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• When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, 'God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!'

  Dolly Parton

  Looks, Wigs, Cheaper

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• I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol.

  John Lennon

  Xenon, Fleas, Monk

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• I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.

  Eileen Myles

  Generations, Eras, Poet

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Warhol was a prime example of a schizoid person. Maybe he had Asperger's, or maybe he was just an amorous human being on earth.

  Jim Shaw

  Example, Earth, Aspergers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every time I work with Dr. Luke I learn something new. He's kind of like the Andy Warhol of pop music, where he mass produces his art but it always still has heart and always still has an emotional thread to it. I think he's really a genius and I'm so lucky to have gotten to work with him.

  Bonnie McKee

  Art, Emotional, Thinking

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• I sound like Warhol but only because I'm tired.

  William Monahan

  Tired, Sound, I'm Tired

  Source: collider.com

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• And out of the blue, I got a call from an editor friend at Knopf and she said that they were interested in putting out an update for their vintage paperback line. So I was more than thrilled and it was suggested that perhaps I could do a 1,000 word new introduction covering what's happened with the whole Warhol thing since 1990 when the first edition hardcover came out and, uh, that was about August 1st and I sat down at my computer here in East Hampton and on on August 30th I'd written almost 10,000 words!

  Bob Colacello

  Blue, August, Vintage

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I don't think he'd [Andy Warhol] be that amazed because he was so driven to be the Picasso of the second half of the 20th century.

  Bob Colacello

  Thinking, Half, Driven

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, Pops, Defined

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• I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan’s work. Like Andy, Ryan’s finger is so on the pulse of culture that he’s ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar.

  Dylan McDermott

  Believe, Echoes, Museums

  "Dylan McDermott: Scared Straight". Interview with Brandon Voss, www.advocate.com. November 16, 2011.

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• Guy Peellaert was to Europe what Andy Warhol was to America - except Guy had more talent!

  Jim Steranko

  Europe, America, Guy

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• My work doesn't have the same rules as, say, Andy [Warhol]'s work. But it's gathered together for the simple reason that we all worked with the images and objects around us.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Simple, Together, Reason

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The most famous living artist in America is Andy Warhol, unfortunately.

  John Heilpern

  Artist, America

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• I was lucky with my first film because it had Warhol in it. That was the selling point.

  Mary Harron

  Lucky, Firsts, Film

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• What I did suffer when I was young was because I was sort of a hick coming into New York City. I was made fun of by a lot of the Factory people. Even Andy Warhol thought I was a hick.

  Kristen Stewart

  New York, Fun, Cities

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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