Happy Birthday, Andy Warhol

"Art is what you can get away with."

The pop-art icon otherwise known as Andy Warhola, Jr. was born on this day in 1928.

 After a successful career as an illustrator, Warhol would become internationally famous

for his work as a painter, avant-garde filmmaker, record producer and author,

who also mingled in a diverse array of social circles.

He is one of only 7 artists to have ever had a single painting sell for 9 digits or more.

Warhol would lose his life due to cardiac dysrhythmia after routine gall bladder surgery in 1987.

"I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens"

"Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it."

"I never fall apart, because I never fall together."

  

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

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"People should fall in love with their eyes closed.

Just close your eyes. Don’t look and it’s magic."