Andy warhol...if you do not know who he is than you are sadly deprived.
he's a creative genius during the height of the pop art scene.....
and from my understanding he was a completely off his rocker...but what creative genius isn't
There is certainly a fine line between being clinically insane and some sort of super creative genius....
And he flirted with that fine line....
and thats why i love him....
so....
heres some quotes by my favorite modern artist...
"An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them. "
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.
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
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 always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with
I am a deeply superficial person.
I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.
Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
I love him, I worship him. I masturbate to Duran Duran videos.
I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.
I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.
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 afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous."
It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.
Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.