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This book offers a unique insight into the mind of the iconic artist Andy Warhol, through a series of interviews and personal reflections. It delves into his perspectives on various aspects of life, including the nature of fame, the role of art in society, and the complexities of modern existence.
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“When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can't believe that people are still pregnant.”
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“Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, "I knew he loved me when de didn't come in my mouth.”
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“Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.”
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“So today if you see a person who looks like your teenage fantasy walking down the street, it's probably not your fantasy, but someone who had the same fantasy as you and decided instead of getting it or being it, to look like it, and so he went to the store and bought the look that you both like. So forget it. Just think about all the James Deans and what it means.”
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“Remember, they've never seen you before in their life.”
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“I never fall apart, because I never fall together.”
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“I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.”
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“People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there.”
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“Space is all one space and thought is all one thought, but my mind divides its spaces into spaces into spaces and thoughts into thoughts into thoughts. Like a large condominium. Occasionally I think about the one Space and the one Thought, but usually I don't. Usually I think about my condominium.”
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“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what." "My mother didn't love me." So what. "My husband won't ball me. So what. "I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what. I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.”
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“Whenever I’m interested in something, I know the timing’s off, because I’m always interested in the right thing at the wrong time. I should just be getting interested after I’m not interested any more.”
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“I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.”
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“I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.”
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“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.”
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“Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it's different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are white, and vice-versa.”
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“You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.”
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“When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be a boss. A boss who could tell me what to do, because that makes everything easy when you're working.”
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“Maybe the reason my memory is so bad is that I always do at least two things at once. It's easier to forget something you only half-did or quarter did.”
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“As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic.”
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“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.”
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“Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.”
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“Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.”
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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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“Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that.”
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“A friend of mine always says, ‘Women love me for the man I’m not.’”
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“When I look at things, I always see the space they occupy. I always want the space to reappear, to make a comeback, because it's lost space when there's something in it.”
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“The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is”
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“The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.”
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“I know a girl who just looks at her face in the medicine cabinet mirror and never looks below her shoulders, and she's four or five hundred pounds but she doesn't see all that, she just sees a beautiful face and therefore she thinks she's a beauty. And therefore, I think she's a beauty, too, because I usually accept people on the basis of their self-images, because their self-images have more to do with the way they think than their objective-images do.”
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“Buying is more American than thinking, and I'm as American as they come.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I want to die with my blue jeans on.”
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“Two people kissing always look like fish.”
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“People are always calling me a mirror and if a mirror looks into a mirror, what is there to see?”
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“One person in the 60s fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love”
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“After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex. Of course, for some people it isn't work because they need the exercise and they've got the energy for the sex and the sex gives them even more energy. Some people get energy from sex and some people lose energy from sex. I have found that it's too much work. But if you have the time for it, and if you need that exercise-then you should do it.”
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“I loved working when I worked at commercial art and they told you what to do and how to do it and all you had to do was correct it and they'd say yes or no. The hard thing is when you have to dream up the tasteless things to do on your own.”
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“I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece.”
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“If everybody's not a beauty, then nobody is”
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“Believe me... I've made a career out of being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. That's one thing... I really do know about.”
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“What I was actually trying to do in my early movies was show how people can meet other people and what they can do and what they can say to each other. That was the whole idea: two people getting acquainted.”
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“During the '60s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered. I think that once you see emotions from a certain angle you can never think of them as real again. That's what more or less has happened to me. I don't really know if I was ever capable of love, but after the '60s I never thought in terms of 'love' again.”
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“Even beauties can be unattractive. If you catch a beauty in the wrong light at the right time, forget it. I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. I believe in plastic surgery.”
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“Day after day I look in the mirror and I still see something”
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“When the Woolworth's-Hot-Fudge-Sundae switch goes on, then I know I really have something.”
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“The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones . . .”
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