69 Quotes & Sayings By Andy Warhol

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

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

Art is what you can get away with. 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

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting. Andy Warhol

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. 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

Art is what you get away with 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

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want. 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 has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can’t see… So the fantasy corners of America…you’ve pieced them together from scenes in movies and music and lines from books. And you live in your dream America that you’ve custom-made from art and schmaltz and emotions just as much as you live in your real one. 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

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

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

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