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Every so often I’ll run across a page showing IQs of the rich & famous. Recently I noticed one that reported Warhol to have a very low IQ which I found hard to believe. Do you know if there’s any truth to that?

He was a peculiar, detached person who often but not always had difficulties communicating. Truman Capote described him as a sort of deaf-mute god figure to many people, who followed him and clung to him only to eventually realize that there was nothing there. The few, actual, sourced quotes that exist, indicate a damaged, dissociative person of fairly high intelligence.

In reference to his being shot by Valerie Solanas in 1968:

“Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it’s the way things happen to you in life that’s unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it’s like watching television – you don’t feel anything. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it’s all television.”

He might have been putting everybody on, really pretty likely that he was, but one thing he wasn't, was stupid.