“I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it. An artist is somebody 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

Source: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), Ch. 10: Atmosphere

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