Warhol Quotes - Page 3

• Andy [Warhol] put on his fey kind of act, but he wanted to be number one and he succeeded. But you never know. Fifty years from now he might not be seen as so important, but the way our whole culture has gone, and the way it continues to go, is his way - for better or for worse.

  Bob Colacello

  Years, Numbers, Important

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• I could write an entirely new book about Andy Warhol, but I don't think I will. I certainly don't think Nancy Reagan would like that, as she's been patiently waiting for Volume 2 of my chronicle of the life of her and Ronnie.

  Bob Colacello

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• I think his portraits of Jackie, Liz, Marilyn, Mao, Elvis, Lenin - and objects like the soup cans, the dollar signs, the hammer and sickle, it's all about icons. Its all about what people worship in an irreligious or secular world. In terms of Andy's personality and Andy Warhol as a human being who I was very close to, I still feel kind of sorry for him on a personal level. I mean, he was the ultimate example of great success wrapped around inner turmoil and emotional pain.

  Bob Colacello

  Sorry, Pain, Mean

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• His [Andy warhol] films were way ahead of the times...and I'm not suggesting this has all necessarily been a good thing for America, mind you. I kind of think we're all in a really big mess, kind of like the end days of the Roman Empire.

  Bob Colacello

  Thinking, America, Mind

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• One thing about Andy Warhol that was remarkable and also key to his widespread appeal is that he was so open! He would get on the phone and talk to the kid who called to say he was a fan - you know, Andy would walk from his house every morning down to the Factory carrying a bunch of Interviews - people would stop him and he would sign them, and what have you.

  Bob Colacello

  Morning, Kids, Keys

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• He [Andy Warhol] engaged people and I think all of that is what helped keep him keyed in to the times beyond all of the celebrity stuff that was going on around him. He was much more like a fan than a celebrity himself.

  Bob Colacello

  Thinking, People, Fans

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• A lot of people found themselves working at the Factory and some even in his bed as a result of random occurrences like your call. Most famous artists have never been all that interested in meeting strangers. That was not the case with Andy Warhol at all.

  Bob Colacello

  Artist, People, Bed

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• He [Andy warhol] went out every evening to five or six parties with a tape recorder in one pocket and a camera with extra film and batteries in the other pocket, constantly recording and photographing everyone he came across.

  Bob Colacello

  Party, Cameras, Pockets

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• When I hear the Spice Girls, yeah, all that '90s stuff, like Limp Bizkit. Dandy Warhols! Whenever I hear them, it takes me right back, because they were friends of the channel, too.

  Jancee Dunn

  Girl, Stuff, Spices

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• I never heard my mom say, "Not now, I'm busy." But I did have extraordinary experiences that I'm very aware were extraordinary. I mean, I traveled Europe before I was 12 years old, had been to the White House numerous times. Andy Warhol photographed me; Michael Jackson called our house.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Mom, Mean, Years

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• The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who are interested in sucking people off.
  But that will not liberate Black people.

  Amiri Baraka

  Art, People, Black

  Imamu Amiri Baraka (1971). “Raise, Race, Rays, Raze: Essays Since 1965”

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• I'd like to think, that were he alive today, Andy Warhol would be painting the Housewives.

  Andy Cohen

  Thinking, Would Be, Alive

  "Meet Bravo's Andy Cohen, the mogul behind Real Housewives and other TV cheese you love to eat—and host of his own wild show, Watch What Happens Live" by Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. December 17, 2012.

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• You see so many people doing quite nice and respectful work, but nobody like Warhol. Warhol is outstanding. I think he has a value that is far from fully understood. He's very special for younger generations.

  Ai Weiwei

  Nice, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Warhol came from an ordinary family and he had a profound understanding about capitalism and material culture. He was probably one of the few Western artists - or artists from the United States - that could be considered a true product of his time and brought out that kind of spirit of the culture.

  Ai Weiwei

  Artist, Profound, Understanding

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The only thing that shocks me is public interest in people who shouldn't be interesting at all, like Jade Goody. We've gone past Andy Warhol and all those clever, arty and witty things that were done and said in the sixties...the fifteen minutes, and so on. Now your celebrities don't have to do anything, they're just voted in. And that shocks me.

  Marco Pirroni

  Witty, Clever, Past

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody.
  Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about?
  Andy Warhol: Yes, it's liking things.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Thinking, Genes

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• After Andy Warhol died, it left a dark cloud over N.Y.C. nightlife.

  Theophilus London

  Dark, Clouds, Nightlife

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• I think Chelsea Girls is a complete masterpiece and I think Andy's [Warhol] films are equally as good as the art. I think one day they will be considered equal. They aren't yet. They will be.

  John Waters

  Girl, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It’s like saying beauty is in the eye of the beholder: what appears to be beautiful today may not be judged beautiful in a few years. A perfect example is the Warhol ‘Marilyn’; in the 1960s it was deemed garish. Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn’t mean having read a few art history books.

  Peter M. Brant

  Beautiful, Art, Book

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• I figure there are enough self-opinionated assholes trying to get their ugly little faces in front of you as it is. You ask a lot of kids today what they want to be when they grow up, and they say, 'I want to be famous.' You ask them, 'For what reason?' and they don't know or care. I think Andy Warhol got it wrong - in the future, so many people are going to become famous that one day everybody will end up being anonymous for 15 minutes.

  Banksy

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

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• I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by.

  Jean Pigozzi

  Art, Ideas, House

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• Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

  Deborah Kass

  Generations, Way, Language

  "Deborah Kass On Appropriation, Barbra Streisand, And The Dissolving Middle Class". Interview with Hallie Sekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.

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• Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really cinema verite, because you aren't actually there.

  Crispin Glover

  Eight, Would Be, Cinema

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The 60s will be remembered for The Beatles, Andy Warhol and Me!

  Jacqueline Susann

  Remembered

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• For me, Warhol made so much sense.

  Raf Simons

  Made

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