American Legends Quotes

“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he, for some reason, thinks it would be a good idea to give them.”
― Charles River Editors, American Legends: The Life of Andy Warhol

“By 1987, Warhol’s health worsened quickly. He received a gallbladder operation, only for his symptoms to return. Always afraid of doctors, he refused to visit one, and on February 6, 1987, he”
― Charles River Editors, American Legends: The Life of Andy Warhol

“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 of living life. 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 that'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. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television.” – Andy Warhol”
― Charles River Editors, American Legends: The Life of Andy Warhol

“I'm confused about who the news belongs to. I always have it in my head that if your name's in the news, then the news should be paying you. Because it's your news and they're taking it and selling it as their product. But then they always say that they're helping you, and that's true too, but still, if people didn't give the news their news, and if everybody kept their news to themselves, the news wouldn't have any news. So I guess you should pay each other. But I haven't figured it out fully yet.” – Andy Warhol”
― Charles River Editors, American Legends: The Life of Andy Warhol

“What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too.”
― Charles River Editors, American Legends: The Life of Andy Warhol

“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.”
― Charles River Editors, American Legends: The Life of Andy Warhol

“Warhol visited the local supermarket and purchased all of their Campbell’s soup cans. On November 23, 1961, he paid Latow $50 for generating the idea, and in 1962, he began completing his soup can paintings.”
― Charles River Editors, American Legends: The Life of Andy Warhol

“Although some of Warhol’s efforts were unsuccessful, including being turned down by Tanager Gallery and the Museum of Modern Art (to which he had attempted to donate a drawing of a shoe), the good outweighed the bad.”
― Charles River Editors, American Legends: The Life of Andy Warhol