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Andy Warhol

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About Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol was an American artist and filmmaker. Widely regarded as the most important artist of the second half of the 20th century, Warhol's practice spanned various media, including painting, filmmaking, photography, publishing, and performance art. A leading figure in the pop art movement, his work explores the relationship between advertising, consumerism, mass media, and celebrity culture. His embrace of mechanical reproduction challenged traditional boundaries between high and low cultu…

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.
I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you …
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you fee…
I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.
I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.
I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that …
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'