I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece.
Andy WarholRead
Pop art is about liking things.
Interpretation
Pop art celebrates popular culture and consumerism.
Andy Warhol's quote highlights the essence of pop art, which revolves around embracing and appreciating the aspects of popular culture. By stating that it is 'about liking things,' Warhol emphasizes the joy and acceptance found in everyday objects and icons, encouraging viewers to find beauty in the mundane and the mass-produced.
In practice
In an art class discussing pop culture, you might quote Warhol to emphasize the importance of appreciating popular art forms.
I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art
I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.
I like to be the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. But usually being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space is worth it, because something funny always happens.
Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.
My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little.
It's weird because I see black gay characters on television all the time, but do I relate to them? Not always, because they're set pieces.
January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well received by the readers. I write eight to ten hours a day until I have a first draft, then I can relax a little. I am very disciplined. I write in silence and solitude. I light a candle to call inspiration and the muses, and I surround myself with pictures of the people I love, dead and alive.
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