Top 177 Warhol Quotes & Sayings

I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.

Warhol was questioning the capitalist society.

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

The 60s will be remembered for The Beatles, Andy Warhol and Me!

You see so many people doing quite nice and respectful work, but nobody like Warhol. Warhol is outstanding. I think he has a value that is far from fully understood. He's very special for younger generations.

'No Hands' art goes straight back to Warhol. He was the first to use elves.

Warhol is the pre-Helnwein.

The people of Pittsburgh should have a weekend flea market at the Warhol. Andy would have loved that kind of stuff.

I've collected Andy Warhol art for years now I have two portraits of myself done by Steve Kaufman.

When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, 'God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!'

I love Andy Warhol!

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace.

When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.

Even Andy Warhol had a copy of '666.'

I don't think he'd [Andy Warhol] be that amazed because he was so driven to be the Picasso of the second half of the 20th century.

You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.

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!

You are not truly a Warhol superstar unless you are dead.

I'd like to think, that were he alive today, Warhol would be painting the Housewives.

Andy Warhol says everyone will be famous for 15 minutes in the future, but even he couldn't have imagine today's fame is due to whom you sleep with.

I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan’s work. Like Andy, Ryan’s finger is so on the pulse of culture that he’s ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar.

Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody. Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about? Andy Warhol: Yes, it's liking things.

I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan's work. Like Andy, Ryan's finger is so on the pulse of culture that he's ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar.

Warhol was the ultimate voyeur, constantly observing people through the lens. He watched and listened, but did not participate. Behind the camera, Warhol was in control.

Warhol had a huge effect on me. It wasn't that I sought it out. It was more of a natural evolution.

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

Warhol was proof that you can be revolutionary without being militant.

Forgers can start with the same photographic images Warhol did, and sometimes knock off silkscreens only an expert can distinguish from the originals.

I sound like Warhol but only because I'm tired.

I was lucky with my first film because it had Warhol in it. That was the selling point.

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

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

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

What if Picasso had gone to the Moon? Or Andy Warhol or Michael Jackson or John Lennon? What about Coco Chanel? These are all artists that I adore.

People have a tendency to think I was part of Warhol's Factory - I never was. I've always been independent.

I'd like to think, that were he alive today, Andy Warhol would be painting the Housewives.

There was no way I could write a paper knowing that Andy Warhol and Boy George were partying at Danceteria.

You have to [go outside your comfort zone]. Andy Warhol said 'say yes to everything'.

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.

I then discovered the Pop Art of Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Peter Max. I was inspired that these fun and colourful images could be presented seriously on canvas.

I worked as an artist, played in a band, met Andy Warhol, Christo, Lou Reed, and David Byrne. I had fun.

Take an exhibit, in the days when we saw the Pop art - Andy Warhol and all that - tomato soup cans, etc., and coming home, you saw everything like A. Warhol.

Cecil Beaton was Andy Warhol before Andy Warhol, really.

When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways.

Motorcycle garb is the way I looked to Warhol. Then came the Armani suits.

You know what Andy Warhol's sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell's Soup a household word.

For my art GCSE, I did a screen print of the Queen's head that was basically an Andy Warhol rip-off, but I didn't realise.

For me, Warhol made so much sense.

When you look at that period when Warhol and the Velvets and the Stones were doing things, it was this intersection of art and music. And then it went away.

I believe in the ethos of the remix, like Andy Warhol making a painting of a Campbell's soup label.

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

The most famous living artist in America is Andy Warhol, unfortunately.

My mom grew up in a strict Catholic family and moved to New York and became part of the Warhol factory.

So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol.

Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.

When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polke, Rauschenberg, Warhol.

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.

Warhol took outcasts and made them into stars. There will never be another artist like him.