75 Quotes by Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was an American artist who played a leading role in the Pop Art movement of the 1960s. He was known for his colorful and often provocative works, which included paintings, sculptures, and films. Warhol's most famous works include his Campbell's Soup cans, Marilyn Monroe portraits, and Brillo Boxes. He was also a prominent figure in the New York City art scene and the founder of The Factory, a studio space that became a gathering place for artists, musicians, and other creative types. Warhol died in 1987 at the age of 58. (Bio)
Andy Warhol Quotes
The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do. (Meaning)
Perception precedes reality. (Quote Meaning)
When you stop wanting something, you get it. (Meaning)
Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves? (Quote Meaning)
Look poor, think rich. (Meaning)
I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts. (Quote Meaning)
I am a deeply superficial person. (Meaning)
You have to be willing to get happy about nothing. (Quote Meaning)
The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting (Meaning)
Everybody must have a fantasy. (Quote Meaning)
Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good-night. (Meaning)
But I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party (Quote Meaning)
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. (Meaning)
Fashion is more art than art is (Quote Meaning)
Land really is the best art. (Meaning)
In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes. (Quote Meaning)
I think everybody should like everybody. (Meaning)
Sex is the biggest nothing of all time. (Quote Meaning)
Don't think about making art, just get it done. (Meaning)
I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever. (Quote Meaning)
If everybody's not a beauty, then nobody is (Meaning)
Pop art is for everyone. (Quote Meaning)
The world fascinates me. (Meaning)
Beauty is a sign of intelligence. (Quote Meaning)
I never read, I just look at pictures. (Meaning)
New things are always better than old things. (Quote Meaning)
If everyone isn't beautiful, then no one is. (Meaning)
I'm a deeply superficial person. (Quote Meaning)
I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do. (Meaning)
People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don’t look and it’s magic. (Quote Meaning)
Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, 'I knew he loved me when he didn’t come in my mouth.' (Meaning)
I never think that people die. They just go to department stores. (Quote Meaning)
When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums. (Meaning)
What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. (Quote Meaning)
Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves? (Meaning)
Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. (Quote Meaning)
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. (Meaning)
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. (Quote Meaning)
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art anybody could ever want. (Meaning)
I like boring things. (Quote Meaning)
I never read. I just look at pictures. (Meaning)
In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. (Quote Meaning)
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. (Meaning)
The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.
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 smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die
You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things. (Quote Meaning)
It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are. (Meaning)
Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
You need to let little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.
There should be a course in the first grade on love.
Perception precedes reality.
As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic.
The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting
There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it
Art is what you can get away with. (Quote Meaning)
When you stop wanting something, you get it.
Kiss me with your eyes.
I’m really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts
I am a deeply superficial person.
Everything will be art and nothing will be art, because everything, as I believe, already is.
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
I never fall apart, because I never fall together. (Meaning)
Look poor, think rich.
A friend of mine always says, ‘Women love me for the man I’m not.’
I wake up every morning. I open my eyes and think: here we go again.
Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.
I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is.
Success is when the checks don’t bounce.
Most people in America think Art is a man's name.
The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will
A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.
The interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me to say and I’ll repeat them after him. I think that would be so great because I’m so empty I just can’t think of anything to say.
I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.
I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up.
Exposure and attention make a work famous - the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.
Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.
If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.
If you don’t think about it, it’s right.
I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts.
I want to be a machine.
― Andy Warhol Quotes
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