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
art slavery born
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
art jobs thinking
Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.
flower
I always notice flowers.
mirrors looks stills
Day after day I look in the mirror and I still see something
giants rodeo butterscotch
Rodeo Drive is a giant butterscotch sundae.
fashion blue jeans
I want to die with my blue jeans on.
beautiful song rocks
There are beautiful sounds in rock. Very lazy, dreamlike noises. You can forget about the lyrics in most songs. Just dig the noise, and you've got your sound...We're musical primitives.
art thinking would-be
I think it would be great to make a $2 million or $3 million art movie where nobody would really have to go to it. I thought that would be a good project to work on . . . do something really artistic.
bed glamorous
Everything is more glamorous when you do it in bed anyway.
teacher book school
The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.
lying thinking people
The nicer I am, the more people think I'm lying.
beautiful mcdonalds moscow
The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.
believe color people
(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.
artist commercial-art mass
I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.