Andy Warhol Quotes

I used to cut out paper dolls. ~ Andy Warhol

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do. ~ Andy Warhol

The best museum is Bloomingdales. ~ Andy Warhol

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

Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service
as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate
its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting. ~ Lewis H. Lapham

In The Past, Andy Warhol Will Be Psychic For 15 seconds ~ Dean Cavanagh

After Andy Warhol died, it left a dark cloud over N.Y.C. nightlife. ~ Theophilus London

someone who fulfils a role in society as a producer of artefacts and activities which confront death by telling us we are alive. ~ Declan McGonagle

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

Buying is much more American than thinking. ~ Andy Warhol

There is no such thing as notoriety in the United States these days, let alone infamy. Celebrity is all. ~ Christopher Hitchens

When I did my self-portrait, I left all the pimples out because you always should. Pimples are a temporary condition and they don't have anything to do with what you really look like. Always omit the blemishes - they're not part of the good picture you want. ~ Andy Warhol

His [Andy warhol] films were way ahead of the times ... and I'm not suggesting this has all necessarily been a good thing for America, mind you. I kind of think we're all in a really big mess, kind of like the end days of the Roman Empire. ~ Bob Colacello

That is what [Andy] Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting. ~ Giorgio Armani

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

Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that. ~ Andy Warhol

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

I just [take pictures] because the camera is something to carry around in my pocket. ~ Andy Warhol

He [Andy warhol] went out every evening to five or six parties with a tape recorder in one pocket and a camera with extra film and batteries in the other pocket, constantly recording and photographing everyone he came across. ~ Bob Colacello

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

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

You meet rich people and you hang around with them, and one night they've had a few drinks and they say 'I'll buy it!' Then they tell their friends, 'You must have this person's work, darling,' and that's all you need. That's all it takes. Get it? ~ Andy Warhol

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. ~ Andy Warhol

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

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. ~ Andy Warhol

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

I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts. ~ Andy Warhol

In a world of pushing, shoving, striving to get ahead at all costs people; to those who knew him well, John Mann was a breath of fresh air. ~ Matt Micros

Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to be, and the way some women still actually want to be. Drags are ambulatory archives of ideal moviestar womanhood. They perform a documentary service, usually consecrating their lives to keeping the glittering alternative alive and available for (not-too-close) inspection. ~ Andy Warhol

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'. ~ Andy Warhol

Rodeo Drive is a giant butterscotch sundae. ~ Andy Warhol

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

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.' ~ Andy Warhol

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 ... ~ Andy Warhol

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die ~ Andy Warhol

The more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel. ~ Andy Warhol

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

People do tend to avoid new realities; they'd rather just add details to the old ones. It's as simple as that. ~ Andy Warhol

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. ~ Andy Warhol

I like to work when I'm not working - do something that may not be considered work, but to me it's work. Getting exercise by going to the grocery store. ~ Andy Warhol

You can be just as faithful to a place or a thing as you can to a person. A place can really make your heart skip a beat, especially if you have to take a plane to get there. ~ Andy Warhol

Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same 'Love Boat' voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana. ~ James Wolcott

A lot of people found themselves working at the Factory and some even in his bed as a result of random occurrences like your call. Most famous artists have never been all that interested in meeting strangers. That was not the case with Andy Warhol at all. ~ Bob Colacello

I love David Bowie and Cher and Diana Ross. I wanted to follow in their footsteps. So I set out to do that in a rock-'n'-roll band in Atlanta, Georgia. That led me to nightclubs and to the sort of Andy Warhol experience of creating a personality. ~ RuPaul

I like boring things. ~ Andy Warhol

In an era when gay men like Beatles' manager Brian Epstein paid a fortune in blackmail to hustlers to keep their secrets safe, Andy Warhol took everything he was told to keep hidden and threw it right back in society's face. ~ Andrew Grant Jackson

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

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

I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London. ~ Marianne Faithfull

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. ~ Andy Warhol

...that's when I realized that Bianca doesn't really take drugs - just a few poppers and maybe some coke once in a while but otherwise she's not on drugs, she's normal. ~ Andy Warhol

Art is what you can get away with. ~ Andy Warhol

But I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party ~ Andy Warhol

The minute you stop wanting something you get it. - Andy Warhol Chain-smoking ~ Austin Kleon

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

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 strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like you're watching television
you don't feel anything. ~ Andy Warhol

If you can convince yourself that you look fabulous, you can save yourself the trouble of primping. ~ Andy Warhol

I want to die with my blue jeans on. ~ Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol would like to have been Edie Sedgwick. He would like to have been a charming, well-born débutante from Boston. He would like to have been anybody except Andy Warhol. ~ Jean Stein

If you're trying to work the art game, if you're like Andy Warhol or something, then you're in with cake-eaters of society. You want to get in with them and please them and get their money. ~ Robert Crumb

I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is. ~ Andy Warhol

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

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. ~ Andy Warhol

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. ~ Andy Warhol

Business Art is the step that comes after Art. ~ Andy Warhol

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. ~ Andy Warhol

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. ~ Andy Warhol

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

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

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. ~ Andy Warhol

Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it's exciting, and if you do it every day it's exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it's not good any more. ~ Andy Warhol

Sociological critics are waste makers. ~ Andy Warhol

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. ~ Andy Warhol

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. ~ Andy Warhol

I never read. I just look at pictures. ~ Andy Warhol

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

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

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs. ~ Andy Warhol

I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back. ~ Andy Warhol

My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing. ~ Andy Warhol

People are always calling me a mirror and if a mirror looks into a mirror, what is there to see? ~ Andy Warhol

I would go to the all-night grocery store and pretend that I was at Studio 54 because it was the only place open all night. Truman Capote in the frozen foods. Andy Warhol over in vegetables. ~ James St. James

Pop art is about liking things. ~ Andy Warhol

Hey, Cunningham - Andy Warhol called. You're at 14:55 and we're tickin' big-time here, Chachi. ~ Dennis Miller

What's great about this country is that 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. ~ Andy Warhol

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

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

I wake up every morning. I open my eyes and think: here we go again. ~ Andy Warhol

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. ~ Andy Warhol

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

Guy Peellaert was to Europe what Andy Warhol was to America - except Guy had more talent! ~ Jim Steranko

I never understand how the lipstick business goes on because lipstick lasts forever. ~ Andy Warhol

Went to Studio 54 where there was a birthday party for the black star on Saturday Night Live who's just signed to do a movie with Paramount. Eddie Murphy. ~ Andy Warhol

Everybody must have a fantasy. ~ Andy Warhol

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? ~ Andy Warhol

I love Los Angeles, and I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. ~ Andy Warhol

I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so American. ~ Andy Warhol

Don't think about making art ... ~ Andy Warhol

Success is what sells. ~ Andy Warhol

There was no way I could write a paper knowing that Andy Warhol and Boy George were partying at Danceteria. ~ Michael Alig