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" My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing. "

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" 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. "

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" Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. "

" 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. "

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" Checks aren't money. "

Andy Warhol

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" We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art. "

" What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. "

" 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. "

" During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered. "

" Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer. "

" My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. "

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

" 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. "

" Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. "

" Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil - of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them and tape-record them. But I didn't think of myself as evil - just realistic. "

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

" Sociological critics are waste makers. "

" So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good. "

" I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again. "

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

" The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting. "

" When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums. "

Andy Warhol

You

Think

" I think they should have movies in restaurants. I can't believe that so many people get together just to sit there. It's so abstract... isn't it abstract? What are these people sitting here watching? "

" People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly. "

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

" I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine. "

" 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. "

" Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too. "

" Art is what you can get away with. "

" I am a deeply superficial person. "

Andy Warhol

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Superficial

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