Andy Warhol Quotes

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• It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way.
• I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.
• Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.
• Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.
• Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
• Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.
• People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.
• Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art
• Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.
• I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back.
• Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.
• 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…
• 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…
• A friend of mine always says, ‘Women love me for the man I’m not.’
• 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…
• 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.
• Success is when the checks don’t bounce.
• When I look at things, I always see the space they occupy. I always want the space to reappear, to make a comeback, because it's…
• The interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me to say and I’ll repeat them after him. I think that would be so…
• Publicity is like eating peanuts. Once you start you can’t stop.

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