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1. "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." ~ Andy Warhol

2. "Sex is the biggest nothing of all time." ~ Andy Warhol

3. "You know it's ART, when the check clears." ~ Andy Warhol

4. "I believe in low lights and trick mirrors." ~ Andy Warhol

5. "James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time." ~ Andy Warhol

6. "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." ~ Andy Warhol

7. "There are beautiful sounds in rock. Very lazy, dreamlike noises. You can forget about the lyrics in most songs. Just dig the noise, and you've got your sound...We're musical primitives." ~ Andy Warhol

8. "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." ~ Andy Warhol

9. "The nicer I am, the more people think I'm lying." ~ Andy Warhol

10. "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" ~ Andy Warhol

11. "The world fascinates me." ~ Andy Warhol

12. "I'm really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts" ~ Andy Warhol

13. "I always notice flowers." ~ Andy Warhol

14. "The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can't be on your own, wich is always so much better." ~ Andy Warhol

15. "Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes." ~ Andy Warhol

16. "I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want." ~ Andy Warhol

17. "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." ~ Andy Warhol

18. "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." ~ Andy Warhol

19. "Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches." ~ Andy Warhol

20. "I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning." ~ Andy Warhol

21. "Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets." ~ Andy Warhol

22. "Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?" ~ Andy Warhol

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

24. "I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom." ~ Andy Warhol

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

26. "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." ~ Andy Warhol

27. "I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows." ~ Andy Warhol

28. "I like boring things." ~ Andy Warhol

29. "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." ~ Andy Warhol

30. "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." ~ Andy Warhol

31. "It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it." ~ Andy Warhol

32. "If I ever have to cast an acting role, I want the wrong person for the part. I can never visualize the right person in a part. The right person for the right part would be too much. Besides, no person is every completely right for any part, because part in a role is never real, so if you can't get someone who's perfectly right, it's more satisfying to get someone who's perfectly wrong. Then you know you've really got something." ~ Andy Warhol

33. "Everybody must have a fantasy." ~ Andy Warhol

34. "The child-like, gum-chewing naïveté , 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…" ~ Andy Warhol

35. "Everyone winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight." ~ Andy Warhol

36. "The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting." ~ Andy Warhol

37. "But I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party" ~ Andy Warhol

38. "I just do art because I'm ugly and there's nothing else for me to do." ~ Andy Warhol

39. "People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don't look and it's magic" ~ Andy Warhol

40. "Remember, they've never seen you before in their life." ~ Andy Warhol

41. "Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?" ~ Andy Warhol

42. "At the times in my life when I was feeling the most gregarious and looking for bosom friendships, I couldn't find any takers, so that exactly when I was alone was when I felt the most like not being alone... I became a loner in my own mind... I decided I'd rather be alone." ~ Andy Warhol

43. "I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever." ~ Andy Warhol

44. "I like to be the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place. Being the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place is worth it because something interesting always happens." ~ Andy Warhol

45. "And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory." ~ Andy Warhol

46. "Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art." ~ Andy Warhol

47. "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. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen 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. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television." ~ Andy Warhol

48. "Edward Smith: What do you think is the characteristic of a really nice person? Some people you obviously do like more than others.Andy Warhol: Ummm, well, if they talk a lot.ES: What, and don't make you talk?AW: Yeah, yes, that's a really nice person." ~ Andy Warhol

49. "Interviewer: "Andy do you feel that the public has insulted your art?"Andy Warhol: "Uh no."I: "Why not?"AW: "Uh well I hadn't thought about it."I: "It doesn't bother you at all then?"AW: "Uh no."I: "Well do you think that they have shown a lack of appreciation for what pop art means?"AW: "Uh no."I: "Andy do you think that pop art has sort of reached the point where it's becoming repetitious now?"AW: "Uh yes."I: "Do you think it should break away from being pop art?"AW: "Uh no."I: "Are you just going to carry on?"AW: "Uh yes." ~ Andy Warhol

50. "If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not. I guess it's for your own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is where having them won't make you go crazy." ~ Andy Warhol

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