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
I am a deeply superficial person.
Interpretation
The quote highlights a contradiction in one's depth and superficiality, suggesting complexity in identity.
Andy Warhol's quote 'I am a deeply superficial person' underscores the idea that individuals can embody contradictions. It suggests that while he may appear to engage with the superficial aspects of art and celebrity culture, there is a deeper understanding or critique within that engagement. This complexity invites reflection on how surface appearances can often mask richer, more profound truths.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about the nature of celebrity culture in a panel on art.
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.
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather lived a life of limits, both suffered and strictly observed, in a world of limits. I learned much of that world from him and others, and then I changed; I entered the world of labor-saving machines and of limitless cheap fossil fuel. It would take me years of reading, thought, and experience to learn again that in this world limits are not only inescapable but indispensable.
My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind.
I don't know -- maybe the world has two different kinds of people, and for one kind the world is this completely logical, rice pudding place, and for the other it's all hit-or-miss macaroni gratin.
Once you see that everything is unreal, you can't see why you should bother to prove it.
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