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
clever thinking things-in-life
In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all the lighter things in life, which are the most important things, are put down.
people uptown downtown
Uptown is for people who have already done something. Downtown is where they’re doing something now. I live uptown but I love downtown.
beautiful pops
Everything is beautiful. Pop is everything.
fashion art art-is
Fashion is more art than art is
night going-out exciting
I love going out every night. It’s so exciting.
philosophy thinking looks
Look poor, think rich.
art night people
You meet rich people and you hang around with them, and one night they've had a few drinks and they say 'I'll buy it!' Then they tell their friends, 'You must have this person's work, darling,' and that's all you need. That's all it takes. Get it?
queens women people
Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to be, and the way some women still actually want to be. Drags are ambulatory archives of ideal moviestar womanhood. They perform a documentary service, usually consecrating their lives to keeping the glittering alternative alive and available for (not-too-close) inspection.
art space photographer
Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.
amnesty kind certain
Money has a certain kind of amnesty.
attention recognition achieve
Exposure and attention make a work famous - the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.
essence soup paint
I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.
running interesting long
When you work with people who misunderstand you, instead of getting transmissions, you get transmutations, and that's much more interesting in the long run.
people one-day president
The President has so much good publicity potential that hasn't been exploited. He should just sit down one day and make a list of all the things that people are embarrassed to do that they shouldn't be embarrassed to do, and then do them all on television.