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Andy Warhol

United States artist who was a leader of the Pop Art movement (1930-1987)

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Art is anything you can get away with.

– Andy Warhol

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

– Andy Warhol

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It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous.

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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.

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

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Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

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Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good night.

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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.

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I am a deeply superficial person.

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I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week...to remind me how fragile life is.

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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.

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In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

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In the future everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes.

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Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad.

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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.

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Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

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The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

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The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

– Andy Warhol

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

– Andy Warhol

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Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that seems to be what is happening.

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Two people kissing always look like fish.

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Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.

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It was reportage with The Beatles, and I was able to achieve this style of photography with them, having built up over the years a bond of trust between us.

– Andy Warhol

Found on CNN 7 years ago

With the intervention of the decades, I was seeing the pictures again with different eyes, and they were actually better than I remembered, i think they look incredible. Having let them sit there for 35 years, I've earned the right to be enthusiastic about them again. To me, they hold up very well.

– Andy Warhol

Found on CNN 9 years ago

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Betânia Torres
“I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week... to remind me how fragile life is”.
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