Andy Warhol Quotes

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

Just because people throw it out and don't have any use for it, doesn't mean it's garbage.

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all the lighter things in life, which are the most important things, are put down.

There are beautiful sounds in rock. Very lazy, dreamlike noises. You can forget about the lyrics in most songs. Just dig the noise, and you've got your sound ... We're musical primitives.

People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.

Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that seems to be what is happening.

When you work with people who misunderstand you, instead of getting transmissions, you get transmutations, and that's much more interesting in the long run.

Traveling makes time go fast. So maybe traveling in space will give people time.

New York restaurants are about selling atmospheres.

Everything is beautiful. Pop is everything.

Wasting money puts you in a real party mood.

The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.

Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.

People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal.

When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be a boss. A boss who could tell me what to do, because that makes everything easy when you're working.

It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way.

That's the hard part of overdosing on cherries-you have all the pits to tell you exactly how many you ate. Not more or less. Exactly. One-seed fruits really bother me for that reason. That's why I'd always rather eat raisins than prunes. Prune pits are even more imposing than cherry pits.

The President has so much good publicity potential that hasn't been exploited. He should just sit down one day and make a list of all the things that people are embarrassed to do that they shouldn't be embarrassed to do, and then do them all on television.

Nutty people are always writing me. I always think I must be on some nutty mailing list.

I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.

Buying is more American than thinking, and I'm as American as they come.

If you don't think about it, it's right.

Bad taste makes the day go by faster.

When the Woolworth's-Hot-Fudge-Sundae switch goes on, then I know I really have something.

Free countries are great, because you can actually sit in somebody else's space for a while and pretend you're a part of it. You can sit in the Plaza Hotel and you don't even have to live there. You can just sit and watch the people go by.

What I've always wished I'd invented was paper underwear, even knowing that the idea never took off when they did come out with it. I still think it's a good idea, and I don't know why people resist it when they've accepted paper napkins and paper plates and paper curtains and paper towels-it would make more sense not to have to wash out underwear than not to have to wash out towels.

What I was actually trying to do in my early movies was show how people can meet other people and what they can do and what they can say to each other. That was the whole idea: two people getting acquainted.

I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece. I don't even taste any of the other pieces, I just want to finish and throw the box away and not have to have it on my mind any more. I would rather either have it now or know I'll never have it so I don't have to think about it.

I never read. I just look at pictures.

I was trying to think the other day about what you do now in America if you want to be successful. Before, you were dependable and wore a good suit. Looking around, I guess that today you have to do all the same things but not wear a good suit. I guess that's all it is. Think rich. Look poor.

The interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me to say and I'll repeat them after him. I think that would be so great because I'm so empty I just can't think of anything to say.

I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

Everything will be art and nothing will be art, because everything, as I believe, already is.

Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see ... So the fantasy corners of America ... you've pieced them together from scenes in movies and music and lines from books. And you live in your dream America that you've custom-made from art and schmaltz and emotions just as much as you live in your real one.

What's great about this country is America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good.

The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can't be on your own, wich is always so much better.

The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.

I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don't want to get too close; I don't like to touch things ...

When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can't believe that people are still pregnant.

If everybody's not a beauty, then nobody is

I'm really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts

Day after day I look in the mirror and I still see something

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD BE BUGGED ALL THE TIME ... BUGGED AND PHOTOGRAPHED

Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil - of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them and tape-record them. But I didn't think of myself as evil - just realistic.

At the times in my life when I was feeling the most gregarious and looking for bosom friendships, I couldn't find any takers, so that exactly when I was alone was when I felt the most like not being alone ... I became a loner in my own mind ... I decided I'd rather be alone.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

I always hear myself saying, 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about.

Kiss me with your eyes.

Sports figures are to the '70s what movie stars were to the '60s.

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

Pop art is about liking things.

And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.

Buying is much more American than thinking.

Don't think about making art ...

You always liked disasters. You liked Grease II

Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world.

I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me.

I think everybody should be nice to everybody.

I've never met a person I've couldn't call a beauty.

Think rich, look poor.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it.

I want to die with my blue jeans on.

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it

I like church. It's empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York.

I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

I think they should have movies in restaurants. I can't believe that so many people get together just to sit there. It's so abstract ... isn't it abstract? What are these people sitting here watching?

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment'.

I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.

Remember, they've never seen you before in their life.

The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.

You have to hang on in periods when your style isn't popular, because if it's good, it'll come back, and you'll be a recognized beauty once again.

So today if you see a person who looks like your teenage fantasy walking down the street, it's probably not your fantasy, but someone who had the same fantasy as you and decided instead of getting it or being it, to look like it, and so he went to the store and bought the look that you both like.
So forget it. Just think about all the James Deans and what it means.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.

Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.

You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad.

I read an article on me once that described my machine-method of silk-screen copying and painting: 'What a bold and audacious solution, what depths of the man are revealed in this solution!' What does that mean?

If I had gone ahead and died ten years ago, I'd probably be a cult figure today.

Everything is more glamorous when you do it in bed anyway.

I've never made the separation between, say, the museum and the hardware store. I mean, I enjoy both of them, and I want to combine the two.

I think it would be great to make a $2 million or $3 million art movie where nobody would really have to go to it. I thought that would be a good project to work on ... do something really artistic.

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

I've always thought that the President could do so much here to help change images. If the President would go into a public bathroom in the Capitol, and have the TV cameras film him cleaning the toilets and saying 'Why not? Somebody's got to do it!' then that would do so much for the morale of the people who do the wonderful job of keeping the toilets clean. I mean, it is a wonderful thing that they're doing.

I just do art because I'm ugly and there's nothing else for me to do.

I think everybody should like everybody.

History books are being re-written all the time

If you're traveling for five years or something like that, you're going somewhere. But five years are being used up, and you don't have to do anything. You just sit on the plane. That might make time go really fast.