Andy Warhol — "Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have …"
Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?
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About Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
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