No Time to Have an Esthetic

Subway station on Central Park West

"Some people say Paris is more esthetic than New York. Well, in New York you don't have time to have an esthetic because it takes half the day to go downtown and half the day to go uptown."
Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Even the Trees Have to Hustle

Bowery

"If you lived in Canada you might have a million trees making oxygen for you alone, so each of those trees isn't working that hard. Whereas a tree in a treepot in Times Square has to make oxygen for a million people. In New York you really do have to hustle, and the trees know this, too."
Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

What Nobody Else Wants

"Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants."

Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol