I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Warhol embraces superficiality and artificiality as positive traits, finding beauty in the manufactured.
- In plain terms
- He finds beauty in artificial things and wants to be artificial himself.
- What can you take from it?
- Embrace the manufactured and superficial aspects of modern life.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What do you find beautiful about fake things?
- How much of yourself is constructed?
Another view
Valuing plasticity may lead to inauthentic relationships.
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