Warhol Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

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• I guess I was always envious of people who got to move to New York for college because they got to see the city that I, perhaps, was pretty jaded by with new eyes and discover for themselves that Andy Warhol was dead.

  Lola Kirke

  New York, Moving, Eye

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• There is a danger in becoming an icon, as people can see you as remote and untouchable, and they are less willing to tolerate you doing things that don't fit with their preconceived idea of you. Iconic status can be like a pair of handcuffs, especially if, like me, you wish to continually stretch yourself creatively, as Warhol did.

  Giorgio Armani

  Ideas, Icons, People

  Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 1, 2008.

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• That is what [Andy] Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting.

  Giorgio Armani

  Icons, Portraits, Culture

  Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 1, 2008.

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• When I was sixteen and knew nothing about art, I sat through almost six hours of Andy Warhol’s Empire. I did not understand it but thought: this is in a major museum, it must be important, what is going on here? I stayed until the museum closed. His Screen Test films are some of my favorite works made this century, but you need to give them back the time they took to be made.

  Uta Barth

  Art, Museums, Giving

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• Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.

  Barbara Kruger

  Art, Thinking, Honest

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• You are not truly a Warhol superstar unless you are dead.

  Jackie Curtis

  Superstar

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• Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods.

  David Sylvester

  Stars, Renaissance, Photograph

  David Sylvester (1996). “About modern art: critical essays, 1948-96”, Vintage

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• TV has eaten up everything else, and Warhol films are all that are left, which is fabulous. Pork could become the next I Love Lucy, the great American domestic comedy. It's about how people really live, not like Lucy, who never touched dishwater. It's about people living and hustling to survive.

  David Bowie

  People, Hustle, Pork

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.46, Melville House

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• Money is completely boring to me. It means nothing, except it feeds my art. Every penny I make goes back into the Haus of GaGa. My Haus of GaGa is something like Andy Warhol's Factory.

  Lady Gaga

  Art, Mean, Pennies

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• Warhol is the pre-Helnwein.

  Gottfried Helnwein

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• Whether you think you like Rubens or not, his influence runs through the pathways of painting. Like Warhol, he changed the game of art.

  Jenny Saville

  Running, Art, Thinking

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• I've collected Andy Warhol art for years now I have two portraits of myself done by Steve Kaufman.

  David Caruso

  Art, Years, Two

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• You have to [go outside your comfort zone]. Andy Warhol said 'say yes to everything'.

  Cynthia Rowley

  Comfort, Said, Zone

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• Andy Warhol said that in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. Facebook is exactly like that except you're not really famous and your 15 minutes goes on forever.

  Craig Ferguson

  Forever, Goes On, Minutes

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• Eugene Mirman is the Andy Warhol of comedy. People look to him for what's next in comedy, and he emails these people back promptly. The Will to Whatevs put me in a great mood because I was laughing out loud. Alone. That's hard to do.

  Mike Birbiglia

  People, Laughing, Email

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