Top 342 Quotes & Sayings by Andy Warhol - Page 4

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

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

Even beauties can be unattractive. If you catch a beauty in the wrong light at the right time, forget it. I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. I believe in plastic surgery.

All photography is Pop, and all photographers are crazy... they feel guilty since they don't have to do very much - just push a button.

One person in the 60s fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love

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 never read, I just look at pictures.

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-ordina ry.

Pop art is a way of liking things.

I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.

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.

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.

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.

The world fascinates me.

Rodeo Drive is a giant butterscotch sundae.

So many people have so many problems. When you think that health is wealth, you're so grateful just to be normal, more or less. Aren't you?

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

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.

Switzerland is my favorite place now, because it's so - nothing. There is absolutely nothing to do.

I never met a pet I didn't like.

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.

You know it's ART, when the check clears.

Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button.

My image is a statement of the symbols of the harsh, impersonal products and brash materialistic objects on which America is built today. It is a projection of everything that can be bought and sold, and practical but impermanent symbols that sustain us.

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

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.

People in uniform always look so great.

You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.

Security breeds stagnation.

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.

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

Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory: instead of fifteen minutes of fame, he will have fifteen centuries.

In the early days of film, fans used to idolize a whole star - they would take one star and love everything about that star ... Today people can idolize a star in one area and forget about him in another. A big rock star might sell millions and millions of records, but then if he makes a bad movie ... forget it.

The best museum is Bloomingdales.

The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it’s a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor.

Reruns are my favorite things on TV.

I wish I hadn't made so many images.

When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people.

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not. I guess it's for our own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is when having them won't make you go crazy.

Maybe the reason my memory is so bad is that I always do at least two things at once. It's easier to forget something you only half-did or quarter did.

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

Whenever I’m interested in something, I know the timing’s off, because I’m always interested in the right thing at the wrong time. I should just be getting interested after I’m not interested any more.

I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.

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

When you do something exactly wrong, you always turn up something.

...after you stop wanting things is when having them won't make you go crazy. After you stop wanting them is when you can handle having them. Or before. But never during. If you get things when you really want them, you go crazy. Everything becomes distorted when something you really want is sitting in your lap.

I love the English language just like I love all American things. But I confess that I don't feel confident using complex sentences or big words, hence my famous minimally expressive style - all the "gees" and laconic answers to interviewers. Most of all, I have developed listening as an art form.

Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.

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.

I think pot should be legal. I don’t smoke it, but I like the smell of it.

Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

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.

Beauty really has to do with the way a person carries it off

Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it's different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are white, and vice-versa.

If everybody's not a beauty, then nobody is

I get so tired of painting. I've been trying to give it up all the time, if we could just make a living out of movies or the newspaper business or something. It's so boring, painting the same picture over and over.

Every song has a memory; every song has the ability to make or break your heart, shut down the heart, and open the eyes. But I’m afraid if you look at a thing long enough; it loses all of its meaning