The interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me to say and I’ll repeat them after him. I think that would be so great because I’m so empty I just can’t think of anything to say. Andy Warhol More Quotes by Andy Warhol More Quotes From Andy Warhol I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it. Andy Warhol paint soup essence 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. Andy Warhol running long people I was trying to think the other day about what you do now in America if you want to be successful. Before, you were dependable and wore a good suit. Looking around, I guess that today you have to do all the same things but not wear a good suit. I guess that's all it is. Think rich. Look poor. Andy Warhol fashion successful work 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. Andy Warhol things-in-life clever thinking Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world. Andy Warhol hard-work cities new-york 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. Andy Warhol together love sex If everyone isn't beautiful, then no one is. Andy Warhol ifs beautiful It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way. Andy Warhol want reality looks I'm confused about who the news belongs to. I always have it in my head that if your name's in the news, then the news should be paying you. Because it's your news and they're taking it and selling it as their product. ...If people didn't give the news their news, and if everybody kept their news to themselves, the news wouldn't have any news. Andy Warhol confused names people I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me. Andy Warhol painting able thinking When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them. “A man is what he thinks about all day long.” [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. Aldous Huxley Andy Warhol men long thinking Sports figures are to the '70s what movie stars were to the '60s. Andy Warhol figures stars sports Security breeds stagnation. Andy Warhol stagnation security I like to work when I'm not working - do something that may not be considered work, but to me it's work. Getting exercise by going to the grocery store. Andy Warhol stores exercise may I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up. Andy Warhol shut-up I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody. Andy Warhol sculpture artist people I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back. Andy Warhol believe death people Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours. Andy Warhol wish action way The clothes of Courreges are so nice. Andy Warhol clothes nice What I've always wished I'd invented was paper underwear, even knowing that the idea never took off when they did come out with it. I still think it's a good idea, and I don't know why people resist it when they've accepted paper napkins and paper plates and paper curtains and paper towels-it would make more sense not to have to wash out underwear than not to have to wash out towels. Andy Warhol knowing ideas thinking
