“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.”
Source: Andy Warhol, Thirty Are Better Than One
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Source: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), Ch. 10: Atmosphere
“Spending money you don't have for things you don't need to impress people you don't like.”
Quoted as "Actor Walter Slezak's version of "keeping up with the Joneses"": in LOOK magazine, Vol. 21 number 14 (July 9, 1957) p. 10 http://books.google.com/books?id=-NERAQAAMAAJ&q=%22impress+people%22, in LOOK's permanent category of quotes "WHAT THEY ARE SAYING".
Already in 1905 W.T. O'Connor had stated that advertising was "The gentle art of persuading the public to believe that they want something they don't need" in "Advertising Definitions", in Ad Sense, Vol. 19, No. 2 (August 1905), p. 121 http://books.google.com/books?id=zPRKAAAAYAAJ&q=%22W.+T.+O%27CONNOR%22, and in 1931 one finds Will Rogers being quoted with advertising "as something that makes you spend money you haven't got for things you don't want." But this complete statement with the finale "to impress people you don't like" seems to have originated with Slezak. However, Quote Investigator https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/04/21/impress/ instead traces the quotation back to American humorist Robert Quillen, who wrote in 1928: "Americanism: Using money you haven't earned to buy things you don't need to impress people you don't like."
“We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.”
Source: The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness
Interview with Oprah Winfrey (2004), reported in Luke Henriques Gomes, " George Michael: from tortured star to pop icon http://thenewdaily.com.au/entertainment/music/2016/12/26/george-michael-bathroom-incident/", The New Daily (December 26, 2016).
“I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.”
“Artists who don't paint aren't artists.”
Milner, Frank (ed): The Stuckists Punk Victorian [National Museums Liverpool, 2005], p. 134
From The Stuckist Manifesto (1999) co-written with Billy Childish
“Artists who don't paint aren't artists.”
Milner, Frank (ed): The Stuckists Punk Victorian [National Museums Liverpool, 2005], p. 134
From The Stuckist Manifesto, (1999) co-written with Charles Thomson
“People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.”
All the Trouble in the World (1994)