Andy Warhol Quotes

Art is what you can get away with.

I never read. I just look at pictures.

I am a deeply superficial person.

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.’

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

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

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

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

I like boring things.

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

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

People should fall in love with their eyes closed.

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

The reason I’m painting this way is that I want to be a machine.

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

Art is what you can get away with.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.

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.

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting.

I like to be the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place. Being the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place is worth it because something interesting always happens.

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.

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.

Everybody must have a fantasy.

A picture means I know where I was every minute. That’s why I take pictures. It’s a visual diary.

I never fall apart because I never fall together.

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

I think everybody should like everybody.

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

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.

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

What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

Everything has it’s beauty, but not everyone sees it.

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

You know, they asked me to do a book of my recipes. Let’s say I don’t have any recipes. What I’d like is a book with blank pages that I could fill with all the recipes I’ll ever get.

When I look at things, I always see the space they occupy. I always want the space to reappear, to make a comeback, because it’s lost space when there’s something in it.

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

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.

Actually, I don’t think there is such a thing as art. I think that’s just something that art critics made up.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.

I think everyone should be like me: make their own newspapers, take their own silkscreens, and make their own art.

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

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

I think everybody should be a machine. I think everybody should like everybody.

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

If you say that you’re Mr. Humphries, then I’m Mrs. Slocombe.

I’m not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don’t really want it to carry one. I’m not interested in that. I’m not a communist. I’m not a capitalist. I’m not interested in creating work that has a message, or work that has a meaning.

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting.

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

I like beautiful things. I want to possess them. I want to possess you. I want to possess the world. I want to be rich.

Art is what you can get away with.