沃霍尔在自由女神创作前的照片

As soon as you stop wangting something you get it.
一旦你停止欲求某个东西，你就会得到它。

“Aura” must be until you open your mouth.
“光环”必定是一种只能存活于开口之前的东西。

It’s harder to tell with journalists than with politicians.
记者比政客更教人摸不着头绪。

Business art is the step that comes after Art….making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
商业艺术乃是“艺术”的下一个阶段……赚钱是一种艺术，工作是一种艺术，而赚钱的商业是最棒的艺术。

All the Cokes are the same and all the Coke are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.
所有的可口可乐都一样，而所有的可口可乐都很好喝。伊丽莎白·泰勒知道，总统也知道，流浪汉也知道，而你也知道。

They always say that time chages things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
他们总是说时间会改变事情，但事实上你得自己去改变它们。

Cash. I just am not happy when I don’t have it. The minute I have it I have to spend it. And I just buy STUPID THINGS.
Checks aren’t money.
现金。我身上没现金就是开心不起来，但一拿到手马上就把它花掉。而且我只买些蠢货。
支票不是钱。

Empty space is never-wasted space.
Wasted space is any space that has art in it.
留白的空间是未曾浪费的空间。
浪费的空间就是任何有艺术品在内的空间。

I guess it’s interesting to try to be another sex, but it can be exciting to just be your own sex.
我猜尝试成为另一种性别很有意思，但光是成为你原来的性别就已经非常刺激了。

eople should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don’t look.
人们应该闭上眼睛坠入情网。闭上你的双眼就是了。别看。

Being clean is so important. Well-groomed people are the real beauties.
干净清洁至为重要。仪容整洁的人才是真正的美人。

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets anyway.
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.
无论如何，性爱在银幕上与在书页之间都比在床笫之间来得刺激。
绮想式性爱远胜于真实的性爱。永远不去做是非常刺激的。最撩人的吸引力来自从未相遇的两极。

If I had wanted to make to make a real sex movie I would have filmed a flower giving birth to another flower. And the best love story is just two love-birds in a cage.
假如我想拍一部确实只有性的电影，我会拍摄一朵花开出另一朵花。而最好的爱情故事就是两只在同一个笼子中的相思鸟。

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消费时代的自由和诚实——陈丹青

安迪·沃霍尔不是作家而超越所有作家。至少，从自然主义、意识流到新小说作家们苦心开掘的领域，被他轻而易举大幅度刷新。他使每分钟的琐屑与念头值得一顾、值得一写，一如他使世界同意：汤罐与广告值得一画。半世纪前，他公开为绘画重新定义，此后又在私下重新定义了写作。

这本书展示了无所不在的自由和诚实，或者说，沃霍尔以无辜的自私、病态的天真、备受困扰的好奇心，以及对任何外部信息与内心活动的天然的平等意识，向我们证明什么才是自由和诚实。阅读它，我发现自己对消费时代种种人性的可能，对于时尚、购物、金钱、媒体、性等等的感知，仍处于前消费时代。

沃霍尔已经过时了，但他在我们这里尚属未来。现在，沃霍尔将近三十年前那些语无伦次而异常细腻的独白，对于自以为进入现代生活的中国都市读者们，可能正当其时。不过请注意，你休想从中获益，除非你也像他那样诚实地面对自由，以至无须在乎那就是自由，就是诚实。

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