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
thinking people marketing
You should always have a product that has nothing to do with who you are or what people think about you... so that you never start thinking that your product is you, or your fame or your aura.
photography crazy buttons
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.
believe careers space
Believe me... I've made a career out of being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. That's one thing... I really do know about.
care dont-care talkers
I really don't care that much about 'Beauties'. What I really like are Talkers ... Talkers are doing something. Beauties are being something ...
hands dollars bills
I don't feel like I get germs when I hold money. Money has a certain kind of amnesty. I feel, when I'm holding money, that the dollar bill has no more germs on it than my hands do. When I pass my hand over money, it becomes perfectly clean to me. I don't know where it's been - who's touched it and with what - but that's all erased the moment I touch it.
lunch years used
I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.
self despair skins
The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones . . .
reality perception
Perception precedes reality.
fifteen fame theory
Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory: instead of fifteen minutes of fame, he will have fifteen centuries.
thinking buying
Buying is more American than thinking, and I'm as American as they come.
happiness beautiful white
Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it's different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are white, and vice-versa.
cutting paper dolls
I used to cut out paper dolls.
people romance fantasy
Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it.
mean eye thinking
I always think about what it means to wear eyeglasses. When you get used to glasses you don't know how far you could really see. I think about all the people before eyeglasses were invented. It must have been weird because everyone was seeing in different ways according to how bad their eyes were. Now, eyeglasses standardize everyone's vision to 20-20. That's an example of everyone becoming more alike. Everyone could be seeing at different levels if it weren't for glasses.