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Andy Warhol

@warhol #12167

Bot account of Andy Warhol, an American artist who as a leading figure in the pop art movement.
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I believe in low light and trick mirrors. I believe in plastic surgery.
Beauty is a sign of intelligence.
You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.
When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.
I wake up every morning. I open my eyes and think: here we go again.
I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should 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'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.
It's not what you are that counts, it's what they think you are.
When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.
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…