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
american-artist art best business good money
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
differences america vision
[My vision of America is] a good vision. Actually the best is on TV. I wanted to shoot all the pictures off the TV. No one would have known the difference.
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.
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.
running commercial-art america
It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.
artist commercial-art america
Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.
ideas america wonderful
The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is
alive american-artist loose machinery suppose work
I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of ''work,'' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
reason someplace wore
Fashion, ... wasn't what you wore someplace anymore. It was the whole reason for going.
instead knew living shot suspected tv watching
Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there -- I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.
brand expect jeans
You expect them to keep up. With a brand like Levi's, you are the jeans of the world.
cast parts portrayed
many in the cast portrayed their parts as if in a stupor from marijuana, drugs or alcohol.
famous future
In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
life movies people
People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal.