Warhol Quotes - Page 2

• I worked for Jeff Kelin. He was a marketing genius before his time. Coupons, car rebates and the value meal (as we know it today) all came from his marketing genius. At 19 years old, I had two jobs, one with Andy Warhol, and the second with Jeff Kelin.

  Steve Kaufman

  Jobs, Years, Two

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• Andy Warhol says everyone will be famous for 15 minutes in the future, but even he couldn't have imagine today's fame is due to whom you sleep with.

  Steve Kaufman

  Sleep, Today, Imagine

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• They say rock is dead. Andy [Warhol] said art is dead. God is dead according to Nietzsche. If everything's dead what's alive? Only technology. We're in the era of technology.

  Sean Lennon

  Art, Technology, Rocks

  "GQ&A: Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl on Mark Ronson, cults and the end of techno". Interview with Tom Ward, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. May 23, 2014.

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• Sometimes the presence of a camera is like opening a door, because many people want what Andy Warhol called "15 minutes of fame." But prostitutes don't want that.

  Michael Glawogger

  Doors, People, Cameras

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I was a fan of Andy's since I was a small kid. I recall seeing an ad of famous people on an airplane together. It was caricature drawing. There was Muhammad Ali, there was Miles Davis, and there was Andy Warhol. I had a fascination with him since I was little.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Airplane, Kids, Drawing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People have a tendency to think I was part of Warhol's Factory - I never was. I've always been independent.

  Michel Auder

  Independent, Thinking, People

  "Feature Presentation: Michel Auder". Interview with Adam Klappholz, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 25, 2009.

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• I'm very sad to be compared with Warhol and The Factory, because I have no drugs, you know. We have no drug culture in Japan! Maybe it's because our attitude toward labor is totally different.

  Takashi Murakami

  Attitude, Japan, Drug

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

  Ai Weiwei

  Writing, Interviews, Understood

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.

  Aby Rosen

  Art

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• Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end.  If art was only business, then rock expressed that transcendental, religious yearning for communal, nonmarket esthetic feeling that official art denied.  For a time during the seventies, rock culture became the religion of the avant-garde art world.

  Dan Graham

  Religious, Art, Rocks

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• He was, as Billy Name said in the acclaimed Ric Burns documentary about Andy Warhol, uninterested in being a second-tier artist. He was uninterested in being a first-tier artist! He wanted to be, you know, a god. Someone who completely changed the...he wanted to be Zeus with the lightning bolt and nothing less would have satisfied him.

  Bob Colacello

  Artist, Names, Lightning

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I took photos from 1976 to when I left in 1993, primarily for Interview and a column I had called "Bob Colacello's Out" which Andy had conceived of. I've never taken a picture since, not even with my phone! It just felt too Andy Warhol to keep going around town taking photographs. And I never really thought of doing anything with them after I left the magazine until this great Art Director Sam Shahid about for or five years ago asked where all of the old photos were.

  Bob Colacello

  Art, Taken, Years

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Somehow Annie Flanders from the SoHo News heard I was doing pictures and was headed to Paris. She saw my worked, liked it, and asked me to take pictures for her paper while I was there, but told me I would first have to buy a real camera - 35-millimeter. I got a little book that taught me how to load film. I read it on the flight to Paris. Hours later, I found myself at the top of the Eiffel Tower with Yves Saint Laurent and Andy Warhol. It's all been downhill since then.

  Roxanne Lowit

  Real, Book, Saint

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I first came to New York, in the '70s, artists were certainly divided about the Andy Warhol persona, and about the work. I thought it was utterly cool - I thought the Factory was utterly glamorous - but there were a lot of artists I really admired and respected who were older that kind of dismissed it, couldn't get it, and felt that there was a lack of seriousness about it.

  Laurie Simmons

  Artist, Kind, Glamorous

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I met Andy Warhol in the '60s, a wonderful time, with wonderful people. There was Fred Hughes, and Jed Johnson, who I liked a lot. Jed Johnson decorated my apartment in New York, at the Pierre. It was his first job.

  Pierre Berge

  People, Wonderful, Apartment

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Andy Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture. I do a great deal of tropes. This past decade has seen a new term, "meme," which is exactly what I'm studying.

  Damian Loeb

  Past, Culture, Study

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For me narcissism is not about money. For me, narcissism is something so romantic and something so human. Everybody is a narcissist. Some people admit it and some people don't. As an artist, it's important to be a narcissist. Look at Picasso, look at Warhol.... As an artist, you can get away with a lot of things that normal people cannot.

  Nir Hod

  Artist, People, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was working in the gap where Martin Luther King, Jr. quoted communism and Warhol appropriated the protest image and named it riot, which is precisely what King didn't want his cause to be associated with. But that was the very thing that made it sexy to the art world. So I played between the two associations.

  Kelley Walker

  Sexy, Art, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm attracted to the work of younger artists, and it's affordable compared to mature art, so you can take a chance much easier on a younger artist. I can't say that I've found an artist who I think is going to be the next Bacon or Warhol. You shouldn't have to do that really. You go forward, and you find something new.

  Laurence Graff

  Art, Thinking, Chance

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The way you would know if someone is famous in the art world is that you would ask your mother. My mother knows who Picasso was. She knows who Warhol was.

  Richard Prince

  Mother, Art, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse - including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He's such an American symbol, and such an anti-art symbol.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Artist, Done, Mice

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• As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything.

  Darren Criss

  Art, Symphony, Musician

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• There was an exchange between me and Andy Warhol. We met, we liked each other, we appreciated each other. He would come to us for Easter in Marrakech. In September we would meet up in Venice. And every time I went to New York I would spend some time with him at the Factory, where we would have dinner together. He's a man that I admired deeply. He shook up the notion of painting - not as much as Marcel Duchamp had done, but he was part of the same general movement. And then we both admired art deco.

  Pierre Berge

  Easter, Art, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'd been asked by Takashi Murakami to collaborate on something, which was an honor for me. I was really pleased. And then he had me as a guest speaker on his radio show, and we were talking about art. I don't think he knew I was interested in the topic - he was really surprised to find out that I own some original Andy Warhol and Gerhard Richter and Jean-Michel Basquiat works. So, in some ways, I think he simply wanted to see what I have.

  Hiroshi Fujiwara

  Art, Thinking, Honor

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was at Plaza Athénée, where a jacket and tie was required. Andy Warhol came with his turtleneck, because he was always wearing a turtleneck, with a tie over it, and we gave him a jacket - so he had a jacket and tie over the turtleneck. It was pretty cool.

  Daniel Boulud

  Over It

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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