Top 47 Andy Warhol Quotes



People should fall in love with their eyes closed.

 

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

 

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

 

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

 

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

 

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

 

An artist is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have but that he – for some reason – thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.

 

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

 

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

 

Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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?

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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