Top 342 Quotes & Sayings by Andy Warhol - Page 5

I loved working when I worked at commercial art and they told you what to do and how to do it and all you had to do was correct it and they'd say yes or no. The hard thing is when you have to dream up the tasteless things to do on your own.

It's great not to be a collector.

I really hate heights. I always like to live on the first floor.

Believe me... I've made a career out of being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. That's one thing... I really do know about.

Traveling makes time go fast. So maybe traveling in space will give people time.

I love it when you ask actors, 'What are you Doing now?' and they say 'I'm between roles'. To be living 'life between roles' that's my favorite

What I was actually trying to do in my early movies was show how people can meet other people and what they can do and what they can say to each other. That was the whole idea: two people getting acquainted.

I know a girl who just looks at her face in the medicine cabinet mirror and never looks below her shoulders, and she's four or five hundred pounds but she doesn't see all that, she just sees a beautiful face and therefore she thinks she's a beauty. And therefore, I think she's a beauty, too, because I usually accept people on the basis of their self-images, because their self-images have more to do with the way they think than their objective-images do.

New York restaurants are about selling atmospheres.

New things are always better than old things.

I think every painting should be the same size and the same color so they're all interchangeable and nobody thinks they have a better painting or a worse painting.... Besides even when the subject is different, people want the same painting.

After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex. Of course, for some people it isn't work because they need the exercise and they've got the energy for the sex and the sex gives them even more energy. Some people get energy from sex and some people lose energy from sex. I have found that it's too much work. But if you have the time for it, and if you need that exercise-then you should do it.

I thought that young people had more problems than old people...Then I looked around and saw that everybody who looked young had young problems and that everybody who looked old had old problems.

I'd rather do new stuff. The old stuff is better to talk about than to see. It always sounds better than it really is.

I really like to work a lot. It makes time go by fast.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. People are only glamorous if you don't see them. Like the movies used to make people years ago. There is something about people on screen that makes them so special; when you see them in person, they are so different and the whole illusion is gone.

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

Everybody does the same thing over and over again. I like to do the same thing every day.

I'm a deeply superficial person.

My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street.

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.

Don't think about making art.

My style was always to spread out rather than to move up.

If I had gone ahead and died ten years ago, I'd probably be a cult figure today.

Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.

Looking younger and being younger is the adolescence idea.

Sports figures are to the '70s what movie stars were to the '60s.

James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time.

Think rich, look poor.

Everything is beautiful. Pop is everything.

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

I will go to the Opening of Anything, including a Toilet Seat

Wasting money puts you in a real party mood.

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

I used to cut out paper dolls.

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.

After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex.

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.

When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can't believe that people are still pregnant.

Everything is more glamorous when you do it in bed anyway.

Uptown is for people who have already done something. Downtown is where they’re doing something now. I live uptown but I love downtown.

After Wakefield Poole's films, mine are unnecessary and a bit naive, don't you think?

The symptom of love is when some of the chemicals inside you go bad. So there must be something in love because your chemicals do tell you something.

If everyone isn't beautiful, then no one is.

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?

The President has so much good publicity potential that hasn't been exploited. He should just sit down one day and make a list of all the things that people are embarrassed to do that they shouldn't be embarrassed to do, and then do them all on television.

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

Free countries are great, because you can actually sit in somebody else's space for a while and pretend you're a part of it. You can sit in the Plaza Hotel and you don't even have to live there. You can just sit and watch the people go by.

Bad taste makes the day go by faster.

The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones . . .

What we're all looking for is someone who doesn't live there, just pays for it.

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. “A man is what he thinks about all day long.” [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. Aldous Huxley

Money has a certain kind of amnesty.

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

I'm confused about who the news belongs to. I always have it in my head that if your name's in the news, then the news should be paying you. Because it's your news and they're taking it and selling it as their product. ...If people didn't give the news their news, and if everybody kept their news to themselves, the news wouldn't have any news.

Nutty people are always writing me. I always think I must be on some nutty mailing list.

Edward Smith: What do you think is the characteristic of a really nice person? Some people you obviously do like more than others. Andy Warhol: Ummm, well, if they talk a lot. ES: What, and don't make you talk? AW: Yeah, yes, that's a really nice person.

The only time I ever want to be something is outside a party so I can get in.

When the Woolworth's-Hot-Fudge-Sundae switch goes on, then I know I really have something.

You should always have a product that has nothing to do with who you are or what people think about you... so that you never start thinking that your product is you, or your fame or your aura.