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“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.”
― Andy Warhol

“You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.”
― Andy Warhol

“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.”
― Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
― Albert Einstein

“Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Google everything. I mean everything. Google your dreams, Google your problems. Don’t ask a question before you Google it. You’ll either find the answer or you’ll come up with a better question.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Pretend to be making something until you actually make something.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Nothing is more paralyzing than the idea of limitless possibilities.”
― Austin Kleon

“The reason to copy your heroes and their style is so that you might somehow get a glimpse into their minds. That's what you really want - to internalize their way of looking at the wold. If you just mimic the surface of somebody's work without understanding where they are coming from, your work will never be anything more that a knockoff.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“I think pot should be legal. I don’t smoke it, but I like the smell of it.”
― Andy Warhol

“I wake up every morning. I open my eyes and think: here we go again.”
― Andy Warhol

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection.”
― Lady Gaga

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”
― Pablo Picasso

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

“I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart