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Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.
I'm seeking out a new way to live and if it's surfing, that's the way I'll do it. I'll be a surfer for the rest of my life.
I love Los Angeles, and I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.
I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'
I always hear myself saying, 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about.
I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.
I always hear myself saying , 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about.
My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street.
Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see.
The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.
Exposure and attention make a work famous - the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.
I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don't want to get too close; I don't like to touch things.
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.
The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can't be on your own, wich is always so much better.
Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?
Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.
Uptown is for people who have already done something. Downtown is where they’re doing something now. I live uptown but I love downtown.
All photography is Pop, and all photographers are crazy... they feel guilty since they don't have to do very much - just push a button.
The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.
(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains.
People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal.
People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.
So many people have so many problems. When you think that health is wealth, you're so grateful just to be normal, more or less. Aren't you?
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.
I think video is the best market. When the cassette market comes out, if you just do movies that nobody else can do, that'll be the new way.
I've never made the separation between, say, the museum and the hardware store. I mean, I enjoy both of them, and I want to combine the two.
Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that.
I can't give parties. It's so hard. When I want to call somebody up for dinner they think I'm using them or something. I just can't stand it.
I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordinary.
I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordina ry.
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.
Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad.
You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.
I love it when you ask actors, 'What are you Doing now?' and they say 'I'm between roles'. To be living 'life between roles' that's my favorite
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.
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.
You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.
You have to hang on in periods when your style isn't popular, because if it's good, it'll come back, and you'll be a recognized beauty once again.
People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there.
An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
The symptom of love is when some of the chemicals inside you go bad. So there must be something in love because your chemicals do tell you something.
Maybe the reason my memory is so bad is that I always do at least two things at once. It's easier to forget something you only half-did or quarter did.
I like to work when I'm not working - do something that may not be considered work, but to me it's work. Getting exercise by going to the grocery store.
Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.
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.
[My vision of America is] a good vision. Actually the best is on TV. I wanted to shoot all the pictures off the TV. No one would have known the difference.
One person in the 60s fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love
I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie.