Andy Warhol Quotes

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too.

~ Andy Warhol

People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal.

~ 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

I think they should have movies in restaurants. I can't believe that so many people get together just to sit there. It's so abstract... isn't it abstract? What are these people sitting here watching?

~ Andy Warhol

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.

~ Andy Warhol

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

~ Andy Warhol

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

~ Andy Warhol

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

~ Andy Warhol

Art? That's a man's name.

~ Andy Warhol

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

~ Andy Warhol

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

~ Andy Warhol

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

~ Andy Warhol

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

~ Andy Warhol

I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.

~ Andy Warhol

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

~ Andy Warhol

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

~ Andy Warhol