Andy Warhol Quotes
Andy Warhol was an American artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. Andy Warhol was born 6th August, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. He died on the 22nd of February, 1987. Andy Warhol was a successful magazine and ad illustrator who became a leading artist of the 1960s Pop art movements.
Below, you will find our collection of Andy Warhol quotes and sayings.
60 Andy Warhol Quotes And Sayings
Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. 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
Once you ‘got’ Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again. Andy Warhol
In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. Andy Warhol
The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it’s much more exciting. Andy Warhol
When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships. 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
What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. 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
Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains – daisy chains – of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between ‘his,’ ‘her’ or ‘their’ wish and yours. Andy Warhol
I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows. Andy Warhol
I never understood why when you died, you didn’t just vanish, everything could 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
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. Andy Warhol
I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with. Andy Warhol
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
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. Andy Warhol
My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person. Andy Warhol
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. Andy Warhol
I think everybody should like everybody. 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
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. Andy Warhol
Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone’s got to take care of all your details. Andy Warhol
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. 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 never think that people die. They just go to department stores. 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
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own. Andy Warhol
I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something. Andy Warhol
I like to work when I’m not working – do something that may not be considered work, but to me it’s work. Getting exercise by going to the grocery store. Andy Warhol
I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine. Andy Warhol
I’ll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody. Andy Warhol
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-ordinary. Andy Warhol
Employees make the best dates. You don’t have to pick them up and they’re always tax-deductible. Andy Warhol
I’ve decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks. Andy Warhol
During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don’t think they’ve ever remembered. Andy Warhol
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. Andy Warhol
I love Los Angeles, and I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. 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
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
When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums. Andy Warhol
I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. 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
Land really is the best art. Andy Warhol
It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor’s finger. Andy Warhol
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have. Andy Warhol
Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves? 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
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
So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good. Andy Warhol
Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don’t know whether I’m alive or whether I died. I wasn’t afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn’t feel fear. But I am afraid. I don’t understand why. Andy Warhol