Andy Warhol
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"Andy Warhol" was an American artist who was a leading figure in the Art movement/visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist. The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives. It is the largest museum in the United States dedicated to a single artist.

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

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

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

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

In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

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

People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you 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.

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true: 'In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.' I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, 'In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous.'

Two people kissing always look like fish.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.

Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good night.

Art is anything you can get away with.

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

I am a deeply superficial person.

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.