Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
Andy Warholwas an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Artist
Date of Birth6 August 1928
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
new-york real cities
Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.
art business steps
Business Art is the step that comes after Art.
commerce sells
Success is what sells.
mean men copying
I read an article on me once that described my machine-method of silk-screen copying and painting: 'What a bold and audacious solution, what depths of the man are revealed in this solution!' What does that mean?
thinking want machines
I want everybody to think alike. I think everybody should be a machine.
turns
When you do something exactly wrong, you always turn up something.
publicity peanuts eating
Publicity is like eating peanuts. Once you start you can’t stop.
mean two museums
I've never made the separation between, say, the museum and the hardware store. I mean, I enjoy both of them, and I want to combine the two.
art men names
Art? That's a man's name.
people wigs ifs
If you wear a wig, everybody notices. But if you then dye the wig, people notice the dye.
art technique multiple
I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.
needs fantasy
Everyone needs a fantasy.
art age landscape
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.
art real trying
If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.