Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
Andy Warholwas an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Artist
Date of Birth6 August 1928
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
looks feels
...the more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.
shut-up
I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up.
people would-be care
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...
self looks want
When I did my self-portrait, I left all the pimples out because you always should. Pimples are a temporary condition and they don't have anything to do with what you really look like. Always omit the blemishes-they're not part of the good picture you want.
love-is chemicals symptoms
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.
art photographer pops
Pop art is for everyone.
trying ordinary-things paint
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.
thinking should
I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD BE BUGGED ALL THE TIME...BUGGED AND PHOTOGRAPHED
cities long would-be
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.
art style listening
I love the English language just like I love all American things. But I confess that I don't feel confident using complex sentences or big words, hence my famous minimally expressive style - all the "gees" and laconic answers to interviewers. Most of all, I have developed listening as an art form.
thinking america pieces
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.
years gone today
If I had gone ahead and died ten years ago, I'd probably be a cult figure today.
confused names giving
I'm confused about who the news belongs to. I always have it in my head that if your name's in the news, then the news should be paying you. Because it's your news and they're taking it and selling it as their product. If people didn't give the news their news, and if everybody kept their news to themselves, the news wouldn't have any news.
america today materialistic
My image is a statement of the symbols of the harsh, impersonal products and brash materialistic objects on which America is built today. It is a projection of everything that can be bought and sold, and practical but impermanent symbols that sustain us.