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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!

  J. G. Ballard

  War, Fire, Guy

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• I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and a belt buckle from playing John Lennon. I've got a pair of sunglasses from playing Andy Warhol... It's all in a box in the garage.

  Jared Harris

  Glasses, Cab Drivers, Done

  "Q&A – Jared Harris (Lane Pryce)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.

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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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• Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Literature, Fame, Made

  "Public Speaking". Documentary, 2010.

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• I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

  Kanye West

  Sleep, Artist, Our Generation

  "Why Kanye West really is the world's No 1 rock star" by Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2013.

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• Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same 'Love Boat' voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana.

  James Wolcott

  Kings, Stars, Princess

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• Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.

  Gore Vidal

  Genius, Literature, Gore

  "Gore Vidal quotes: 26 of the best", www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2012.

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• I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Mother, Reading, Thinking

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• So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Play, Portraits, Rabbits

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• The first piece of art that I ever bought - when I could afford it - was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean.

  James Franco

  Art, Guy, Firsts

  Interview with Gus Van Sant, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2008.

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• Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Catholic, Church, Kitsch

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• When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.

  Damien Hirst

  Real, British Monarchy, Kind

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• You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.

  Barbara Kruger

  Art, Voice, Village

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• I was a product of Andy Warhol's Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly talented and creative people who were continually making art, and it was impossible not to be affected by that.

  Lou Reed

  Art, People, Creative

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• But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can.

  Pete Townshend

  Thinking, People, Interesting

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• Andy [Warhol] was on the scene, but he wasn't an artist at first; he was more an illustrator. He was always surrounded by about ten people who worshipped him. He'd go to a party and they would all come along. But he was drawing shoes and that sort of thing.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Party, Artist, Shoes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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