Andy Warhol Quotes

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

~ Andy Warhol

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

~ Andy Warhol

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.

~ Andy Warhol

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment'.

~ Andy Warhol

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

~ Andy Warhol

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

~ Andy Warhol

Just because people throw it out and don't have any use for it, doesn't mean it's garbage.

~ Andy Warhol

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.

~ Andy Warhol

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

~ Andy Warhol

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.

~ Andy Warhol

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

~ Andy Warhol

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

~ Andy Warhol

I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art.

~ Andy Warhol

I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art. The best art are those dime novels. People will put those books in a museum one day. Artists will make paintings of them. They're beautiful. And for everyone. That's how I want my art to be.

~ Andy Warhol

Everybody must have a fantasy.

~ Andy Warhol

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

~ Andy Warhol

The child-like, gum-chewing naïveté , 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…

~ Andy Warhol

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

~ Andy Warhol

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.

~ Andy Warhol

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

~ Andy Warhol

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

~ Andy Warhol

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.

~ Andy Warhol

Business art is the step that comes after art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist. Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. During the hippie era people put down the idea of business. They’d say “money is bad” and “working is bad”. But making money is art, and working is art - and good business is the best art.

~ Andy Warhol

If I ever have to cast an acting role, I want the wrong person for the part. I can never visualize the right person in a part. The right person for the right part would be too much. Besides, no person is every completely right for any part, because part in a role is never real, so if you can't get someone who's perfectly right, it's more satisfying to get someone who's perfectly wrong. Then you know you've really got something.

~ Andy Warhol

Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.

~ Andy Warhol

Kiss me with your eyes.

~ Andy Warhol

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs.

~ Andy Warhol

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.Andy Warhol

~ Andy Warhol

I always notice flowers.

~ Andy Warhol

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

~ Andy Warhol

I am a deeply superficial person.

~ Andy Warhol

Some day each of us will be famous for fifteen minutes.

~ Andy Warhol

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

~ Andy Warhol

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

~ Andy Warhol

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

~ Andy Warhol

In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

~ Andy Warhol

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

~ Andy Warhol

Land really is the best art.

~ Andy Warhol

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.

~ Andy Warhol

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

~ Andy Warhol