Andy Warhol citáty

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„Všetko má svoju krásu, ale nie každý ju vidí.“

„Nevšímajte si toho, čo o vás píšu. Zamerajte sa len na rozmery textu.“

„Umenie je to, s čím sa môžete zabaviť.“

„Nemyslím, že moje umenie by malo trvalú hodnotu.“

„Vysnívaná láska je krajšia ako skutočná. Najvzrušujúcejšia náklonnosť je medzi tými, ktorí sa nikdy nestretli.“

„Umelec je ten, kto vytvára veci, ktoré ľudia nepotrebujú, ale o ktorých si on - z nejakého dôvodu - myslí, že by mohol byť dobrý nápad im ich dať.“

„Umelec je niekto, kto produkuje veci, ktoré ľudia nepotrebujú.“

„Musíte robiť veci, ktorým priemerní ľudia nerozumejú, pretože tie sú jediné dobré veci.“

„Nedonútite ľudí, aby sa zmenili, ak sami nechcú, práve tak, ako im nezabránite, ak sa sami chcú zmeniť.“

„Ľudské sny robia ľuďom problémy. Keď prestanete mať sny, prestanete mať aj problémy, pretože budete brať veci jednoducho tak, ako sú. No potom nebudete mať ani lásku, pretože láska je nachádzanie svojho sna v ľuďoch, ktorí ho nemajú.“

„Akonáhle prestanete niečo chcieť, dostanete to.“

„Nezáleží na tom, ako pomaly ideš, pokiaľ sa nezastavíš.“

„Zaujímalo by ma, či je možné mať milostný vzťah, ktorý trvá večne.“

„Nebojím sa umierania; Len nechcem byť pri tom, keď sa mi to stane.“

„Myšlienka čakania na niečo, to niečo robí vzrušujúcim.“

„Každý raz bude mať pätnásť minút slávny.“

„Sex je najväčšie nič všetkých dôb.“

„Bojím sa, že ak sa na nejakú vec budete pozerať príliš dlho, stratí svoj význam.“

„Keď sú ľudia pripravení, zmenia sa. Nikdy tak neurobia skôr a niekedy zomrú ešte predtým, ako by sa k tomu dostali. Nemôžete ich zmeniť, ak sa zmeniť nechcú, rovnako ako ich nemôžete zastaviť, keď to nemajú v úmysle.“

„Podľa mňa by mali všetci byť milí ku všetkým.“

„Každý musí mať fantáziu.“

„Nemyslite vytváraní umenia, len ho tvorte. Nech sa ostatní rozhodnú, či je dobré alebo zlé, či ho milujú alebo ho nenávidia.
A zatiaľ čo sa rozhodujú, tvorte ešte viac.“

„Nie. si to ty, na čom záleží, ale to, čím si iní myslia, že si.“

„Mám rád nudné veci.“

„A váš vlastný život, kým ho žijete, nemá žiadnu atmosféru, kým sa nestane spomienkou.“

„Som hlboko povrchný človek.“

“The farther West we drove [to California, Fall of 1963, with Gerard Malanga, Wynn Chamberlain, and Taylor Mead for an opening of Warhol's 'Liz & Elvis paintings' at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles], the more Pop everything looked on the highways. Suddenly we all felt like insiders because even though Pop was everywhere – that was the thing about it, most people still took it for granted, whereas we were dazzled by it – to us, it was the new Art. Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again. The moment you label something, you take a step – I mean, you can never go back again to seeing it unlabeled. We were seeing the future and we knew it for sure.... the mystery was gone, but the amazement was just starting.”

“In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all the lighter things in life, which are the most important things, are put down.”

“If an artist can't do anymore, then he should just quit; and an artist ought to be able to change his style without feeling bad. I heard that Lichtenstein said he might not be painting comic strips a year of two from now [1963]. I think that would be so great, to be able to change styles. And I think that's what's going to happen; that's going to be the whole new scene.”

“Therefore, everything seen – every object, that is, plus the process of looking at it – is a Duchamp. Turn it over and it is.”

“I guess it was the big plane crash picture [why Warhol started his 'Death'-series], the front page of a newspaper: '129 DIED'. I was also painting the Marilyns [the Marylin Monroe portraits, Warhol started after her tragic death in 1962] I realized that everything I was doing must have been death. It was Christmas or Labor Day - a holiday - and very time that you turned on the radio they said something like '4 millions are going to die'. That started it. But when you see I gruesome picture over and over again, it doesn't really have any effect.”

“A lot of people thought it was me everyone at the 'Factory' was hanging around, that I was some kind of big attraction that everyone came to see, but that's absolutely backward: it was me who was hanging around everyone else. I just paid the rent, and the crowds came simply because the door was open. People weren't particularly interested in seeing me; they were interested in seeing each other. They came to see who came.”

“The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.”

“In my art work, hand painting would take much too long and anyway that's not the age we're living in.”

“Sex is nostalgia for sex.”

“In fifteen minutes, everyone will be famous.”

“In the future, everybody will be world famous for 15 minutes.”

“When I have to think about it, I know the picture is wrong. And sizing is a form of thinking and coloring is too. My instinct about painting says, 'If you don’t think about it, it's right.'”