Andy Warhol Style Quotes

How can U say one style is better than another. You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week, or a Pop artist, or a realist, without feeling youve given up something ... I think that would be so great, to be able to change styles. And I think that's what's going to happen, that's going to be the whole new scene. - Andy Warhol, 1963 ~ Legs McNeil

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

Pop art is a way of liking things. ~ Andy Warhol

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

I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordinary. ~ Andy Warhol

There's a famous artist, Ron English, in New York, that just, or Andy Warhol for that matter, that did pop art that terrorized society. And that's, for the last like 10, 15 years, that's all I wanted to do, is terrorize society and make them look into a mirror and see what the hell we have wrought. ~ Al Jourgensen

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

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer. ~ Andy Warhol

He [Andy Warhol] engaged people and I think all of that is what helped keep him keyed in to the times beyond all of the celebrity stuff that was going on around him. He was much more like a fan than a celebrity himself. ~ Bob Colacello

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. ~ Andy Warhol

I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol! ~ J.G. Ballard

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

I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous. ~ Eileen Myles

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

Money has a certain kind of amnesty. ~ 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

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. ~ Andy Warhol

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

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

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

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

I took photos from 1976 to when I left in 1993, primarily for Interview and a column I had called "Bob Colacello's Out" which Andy had conceived of. I've never taken a picture since, not even with my phone! It just felt too Andy Warhol to keep going around town taking photographs. And I never really thought of doing anything with them after I left the magazine until this great Art Director Sam Shahid about for or five years ago asked where all of the old photos were. ~ Bob Colacello

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

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

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

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. ~ Andy Warhol

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. ~ 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 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

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

Rodeo Drive is a giant butterscotch sundae. ~ Andy Warhol

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

Every time I work with Dr. Luke I learn something new. He's kind of like the Andy Warhol of pop music, where he mass produces his art but it always still has heart and always still has an emotional thread to it. I think he's really a genius and I'm so lucky to have gotten to work with him. ~ Bonnie McKee

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

If I ever have to cast an acting role, I want the wrong person for the part. I can never visualize the right person in a part. The right person for the right part would be too much. Besides, no person is every completely right for any part, because part in a role is never real, so if you can't get someone who's perfectly right, it's more satisfying to get someone who's perfectly wrong. Then you know you've really got something. ~ Andy Warhol

I've always had the idea that multi-millionaire rock stars should work harder than anyone because they have the ability to do it. Look at an artist like Andy Warhol. He never stopped working, even after he didn't need to work again. ~ Buzz Osborne

I'm seeking out a new way to live and if it's surfing, that's the way I'll do it. I'll be a surfer for the rest of my life. ~ Andy Warhol

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die ~ 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 was in the hospital after I was shot they gave me drugs, but it was so great to get off those. ~ Andy Warhol

You always liked disasters. You liked Grease II ~ Andy Warhol

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

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

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

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