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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”
― Andy Warhol

“Art is what you can get away with.”
― Andy Warhol

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

“Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.”
― Andy Warhol

“In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.”
― Andy Warhol

“The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.”
― Andy Warhol

“An artist is someone 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.”
― Andy Warhol

“People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.”
― Andy Warhol

“everything has it's beauty but not everyone sees it”
― Andy Warhol

“Making money is art. And working is art. And good business is the best art.”
― Andy Warhol

“Kiss me with your eyes.”
― Andy Warhol

“You know it's ART, when the check clears.”
― Andy Warhol

“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes."
~Andy Warhol 1968
He revised it in 1979:
"In 15 minutes, everybody will be famous.”
― Andy Warhol

“I never read. I just look at pictures.”
― Andy Warhol

“Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”
― Andy Warhol

“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that's almost never the case.”
― Chuck Close

“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightening to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.”
― Chuck Close, Chuck Close

“Art saved my life”
― Chuck Close

“Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.”
― Chuck Close, Chuck Close: Face Book

“Get yourself in trouble. If you get yourself in trouble, you don't have the answers. And if you don't have the answers, your solution will more likely be personal because no one else's solutions will seem appropriate. You'll have to come up with your own.”
― Chuck Close

“The worst possible thing in the world can happen to you, and you will overcome it. You will be happy again.”
― Chuck Close