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 o...f living life.... Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My image is a statement of the symbols of the harsh, impersonal products and brash materialistic objects on which America is built... today. It is a projection of everything that can be bought and sold, the practical but impermanent symbols that sustain us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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. Everybody has their own America, and then they have the pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 th...at'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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface: of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's not...hing behind it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »