April 8th 2011

Andy Warhol

I find Warhol’s Ideas about the world rather amusing and cynical. His black sense of humour comes through and he plays on the world’s idea of ‘What is art?’ I plan to use the following quotes to inspire me to create my folio.

My favourite quotes from Andy Warhol:

"Art is dead."

"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."

"Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches."

"I am a deeply superficial person."

"Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet."

"I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows."

"I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs."

"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic."

"I never think that people die. They just go to department stores."

"I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money."

"I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'"

"I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning."

"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks."

"In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."

"Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

"When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships."