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Education Quote by Andy Warhol

"People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly"

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Warhol, the patron saint of surface, slips a needle under the glitter here. The line reads like a public-service announcement, but it carries the quiet menace of someone who watched modern life turn speed into a lifestyle and distraction into an ethic. “Learning how to live” is an odd phrase from an artist famous for making a career out of repetition and cool remove. That’s the point: he’s framing living as a skill you can fail at, not a natural state you automatically inhabit.

The intent isn’t self-help; it’s a warning about unexamined momentum. Warhol’s world was Factory time: production, celebrity churn, images that arrive pre-chewed and ask nothing of you except attention. In that context, “made more aware” sounds almost clinical, like consciousness itself is a commodity that needs marketing. He implies we don’t wake up; we have to be prompted, advertised to, trained. That’s classic Warhol: even the soul has to be packaged.

The subtext is mortality, but also urgency without melodrama. He doesn’t romanticize death; he treats it as scheduling reality. “Sometimes it goes away too quickly” lands with extra bite considering his proximity to violence (the 1968 shooting), the era’s tabloid catastrophes, and the 1980s atmosphere of fragility and loss in the art world. Warhol’s genius was noticing how a culture that worships immediacy still manages to sleepwalk through its own days. This quote is him admitting that the brightest screens can still leave you in the dark.

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Warhol, Andy. (2026, January 17). People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/people-need-to-be-made-more-aware-of-the-need-to-32974/

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Warhol, Andy. "People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/people-need-to-be-made-more-aware-of-the-need-to-32974/.

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"People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/people-need-to-be-made-more-aware-of-the-need-to-32974/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Andy Warhol (August 6, 1927 - February 22, 1987) was a Artist from USA.

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