Top 342 Quotes & Sayings by Andy Warhol - Page 2

I think Chris Burden is terrific. I really do.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

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

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.

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.

The clothes of Courreges are so nice.

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.

Sociological critics are waste makers.

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

If you wear a wig, everybody notices. But if you then dye the wig, people notice the dye.

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

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

Checks aren't money.

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.

So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.

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.

I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.

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

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

There should be a course in the first grade on love.

People should fall in love with their eyes closed.

The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will

You need to let little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic.

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

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

Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, "I knew he loved me when de didn't come in my mouth.

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

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

I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up.

I never fall apart, because I never fall together.

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

Look poor, think rich.

When you stop wanting something, you get it.

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it

Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good-night.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what." "My mother didn't love me." So what. "My husband won't ball me. So what. "I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what. I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.

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

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

I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.

Exposure and attention make a work famous - the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

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

A friend of mine always says, ‘Women love me for the man I’m not.’

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?

The nicer I am, the more people think I'm lying.

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

Perception precedes reality.

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

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

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.

Success is when the checks don’t bounce.

I like to be the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. But usually being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space is worth it, because something funny always happens.

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.

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.

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Kiss me with your eyes.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.