An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television -- you don't feel anything.
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
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.
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.
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.
I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.
My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.' As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong. And the more you decide about, the more wrong it gets.
A lady friend of mine asked me, "Well, what do you love most?" That's how I started painting money.
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