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Andy Warhol ( ; born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist and filmmaker. Widely regarded as the most important artist of the second half of the 20th century, Warhol's practice spanned various media, including painting, filmmaking, photography, publishing, and performance art. A leading figure in the pop art movement, his work explores the relationship between advertising, consumerism, mass media, and celebrity culture. His embrace of mechanical reproduction challenged traditional boundaries between high and low culture. He is also credited with popularizing the expression "15 minutes of fame".

Quotes from Andy Warhol

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

humor death shopping

Land really is the best art.

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

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

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

In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

I am a deeply superficial person.

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

Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see. . . . So the fantasy corners of America, . . . you've pieced them together from scenes in movies and music and lines from books. And you live in your dream America that you've custom-made from art and schmaltz and emotions just as much as you live in your real one.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.