Top 342 Quotes & Sayings by Andy Warhol - Page 3

A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.

The girls in California were probably prettier in a standard sense than the New York girls--blonder and in better health, I guess; but I still preferred the way the girls in New York looked--stranger and more neurotic (a girl always looked more beautiful and fragile when she was about to have a nervous breakdown).

Success is what sells.

Space is all one space and thought is all one thought, but my mind divides its spaces into spaces into spaces and thoughts into thoughts into thoughts. Like a large condominium. Occasionally I think about the one Space and the one Thought, but usually I don't. Usually I think about my condominium.

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

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.

Everybody must have a fantasy.

People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there.

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

The wide multitude wanted to seem contrarian. It meant that this type of nonconformism had to be mass-produced.

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.

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

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.

I think anybody can take a good picture. My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous. It's being in the right place at the wrong time.

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

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

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

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

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

Two people kissing always look like fish.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

I always think I don't do the first one good, so I try to do it more.

During the '60s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered. I think that once you see emotions from a certain angle you can never think of them as real again. That's what more or less has happened to me. I don't really know if I was ever capable of love, but after the '60s I never thought in terms of 'love' again.

Fashion is more art than art is

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art

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

Pop art is about liking things.

Most people in America think Art is a man's name.

I really don't care that much about "Beauties." What I really like are Talkers. To me, good talkers are beautiful because good talk is what I love. The word itself shows why I like Talkers better than Beauties, why I tape more than I film. It's not "talkies." Talkers are doing something.

If there's ever a problem, I film it and it's no longer a problem. It's a film.

(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains.

I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

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.

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

In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

The moment you label something, you take a step-I mean, you can never go back again to seeing it unlabelled.

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 seem so atmospheric because you 've pieced them together from scenes in movies and music and lines from books.

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.

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

The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second — comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators, Coke bottles. All the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried not to notice at all.

I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.

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 always think about what it means to wear eyeglasses. When you get used to glasses you don't know how far you could really see. I think about all the people before eyeglasses were invented. It must have been weird because everyone was seeing in different ways according to how bad their eyes were. Now, eyeglasses standardize everyone's vision to 20-20. That's an example of everyone becoming more alike. Everyone could be seeing at different levels if it weren't for glasses.

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.

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.

Don't think about making art, just get it done.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.

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

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

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

Pop art is for everyone.

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.

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

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.

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

How can you 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 you've given up something.. I think that would be so great, to be able to change styles. And I think that's what's is going to happen, that's going to be the whole new scene.

I always notice flowers.

The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.