คนที่เคยได้ยิน ได้ฟัง หรือได้อ่าน คำพูดจาก แอนดี วอร์ฮอล (Andy Warhol) ศิลปินชาวอเมริกันที่มีชีวิตระหว่าง ค.ศ. 1928-1987 (59 ปี!) จะพบว่า ประโยคที่เขาพูดยังมีอ้างถึงกระทั่งในปัจจุบันนี้ เช่น "In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." ประโยคนี้กลายมาเป็นสิ่งที่ใครบางคน อาจใช้ให้กำลังใจแก่ตนเอง เพื่อมีความมานะพยายาม และประสบผลสำเร็จในอนาคต (หมายความว่า ไม่ว่าจะเป็นใครก็ตาม มีโอกาสเหมือนกัน)
ส่วนคำพูดอื่นที่อ่านแล้วดูน่าสนใจ หรือบางประโยค รู้สึกขันแต่ก็เห็นว่าเป็นมุมมองชีวิตของเขาก็ว่าได้ จึงนำมาฝากครับ
You've got to love his pithy sayings.
The ones I like most are in blue or red. Those in parentheses are mine.
1. "Being born is like being kidnapped.
And then sold into slavery.
People are working every minute.
The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep."
2. "The idea is not to live forever,
it is to create something that will."
3. "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."
4. "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you,
because someone's got to take care of all your details."
(..ha ha... You can imagine this. You were undressed, bathed, shampooed, etc.
In short, everythings that you normally do daily would be done in the way you liked by others.)
5. "I always wished I had died, and I still wish that,
because I could have gotten the whole thing over with."
6. "I have Social Disease.
I have to go out every night.
If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs."
7. "I like boring things."
8. "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful.
Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic."
9. "I never think that people die. They just go to department stores."
10. "I never read. I just look at pictures."
11. "I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish,
everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there.
I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank.
No epitaph, and no name.
Well, actually, I'd like it to say "figment"."
12. "I went to China, I didn't want to go, and I went to see the Great Wall.
You know, you read about it for years.
And actually it was great. It was really, really, really great."
13. "I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions.
Finally one lady friend asked the right question,
"Well, what do you love most?" That's how I started painting money."
14. "I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough,
it loses all of its meaning."
15. "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink.
As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks."
16. "Isn't life just a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?"
17. "People should fall in love with their eyes closed.
Just close your eyes. Don't look and it's magic."
18. "Making money is art
and working is art
and good business is the best art."
19. "People are only glamorous if you don't see them.
Like the movies used to make people years ago.
There is something about people on screen that makes them so special;
when you see them in person, they are so different and the whole illusion is gone."
20. "The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's.
The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's.
Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.
(ha ha......I hope he meant it ironically! Today, there are plenty.)
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Source: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol
