Quotes About Warhol

#1. Andy [Warhol] was on the scene, but he wasn't an artist at first; he was more an illustrator. He was always surrounded by about ten people who worshipped him. He'd go to a party and they would all come along. But he was drawing shoes and that sort of thing.

Claes Oldenburg

#2. Exposure and attention make a work famous - the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.

Andy Warhol

#3. Sociological critics are waste makers.

Andy Warhol

#4. You can be just as faithful to a place or a thing as you can to a person. A place can really make your heart skip a beat, especially if you have to take a plane to get there.

Andy Warhol

#5. Warhol was a prime example of a schizoid person. Maybe he had Asperger's, or maybe he was just an amorous human being on earth.

Jim Shaw

#6. I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike.

Andy Warhol

#7. Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

Andy Warhol

#8. The nicer I am, the more people think I'm lying.

Andy Warhol

#9. Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button.

Andy Warhol

#10. I think every painting should be the same size and the same color so they're all interchangeable and nobody thinks they have a better painting or a worse painting ... Besides even when the subject is different, people want the same painting.

Andy Warhol

#11. I love it when you ask actors, 'What are you Doing now?' and they say 'I'm between roles'. To be living 'life between roles' that's my favorite

Andy Warhol

#12. Forgers can start with the same photographic images Warhol did, and sometimes knock off silkscreens only an expert can distinguish from the originals.

Michael Shnayerson

#13. I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.

Andy Warhol

#14. The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.

Andy Warhol

#15. If you're trying to work the art game, if you're like Andy Warhol or something, then you're in with cake-eaters of society. You want to get in with them and please them and get their money.

Robert Crumb

#16. The world fascinates me.

Andy Warhol

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

Andy Warhol

#18. Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.

Andy Warhol

#19. It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way.

Andy Warhol

#20. I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me.

Andy Warhol

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

Andy Warhol

#22. Success is what sells.

Andy Warhol

#23. I really hate heights. I always like to live on the first floor.

Andy Warhol

#24. Nutty people are always writing me. I always think I must be on some nutty mailing list.

Andy Warhol

#25. As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything.

Darren Criss

#26. 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

#27. They say rock is dead. Andy [Warhol] said art is dead. God is dead according to Nietzsche. If everything's dead what's alive? Only technology. We're in the era of technology.

Sean Lennon

#28. I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.

Andy Warhol

#29. Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it's different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are white, and vice-versa.

Andy Warhol

#30. If I had gone ahead and died ten years ago, I'd probably be a cult figure today.

Andy Warhol

#31. I never understand how the lipstick business goes on because lipstick lasts forever.

Andy Warhol

#32. 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

#33. When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.

Andy Warhol

#34. I love David Bowie and Cher and Diana Ross. I wanted to follow in their footsteps. So I set out to do that in a rock-'n'-roll band in Atlanta, Georgia. That led me to nightclubs and to the sort of Andy Warhol experience of creating a personality.

RuPaul

#35. I remembered I had tickets that Susan Blond gave me to the rock kid who ate the heads off bats, Ozzy Osbourne,...

Andy Warhol

#36. Everyone winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.

Andy Warhol

#37. The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.

Andy Warhol

#38. Warhol is the pre-Helnwein.

Gottfried Helnwein

#39. The moment you label something, you take a step-I mean, you can never go back again to seeing it unlabelled.

Andy Warhol

#40. History books are being re-written all the time

Andy Warhol

#41. I do mostly portraits. So it's just people's faces, not really any ideas.

Andy Warhol

#42. 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

#43. I was a fan of Andy's since I was a small kid. I recall seeing an ad of famous people on an airplane together. It was caricature drawing. There was Muhammad Ali, there was Miles Davis, and there was Andy Warhol. I had a fascination with him since I was little.

Jeffrey Deitch

#44. The only thing the Pop Artists had in common is that we all had been commercial artists in some manner. Lichtenstein was a draftsman; I was a billboard painter, but we didn't work together. I didn't meet Andy Warhol until 1964.

James Rosenquist

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

Andy Warhol

#46. 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

#47. I think everybody should be nice to everybody.

Andy Warhol

#48. I am a deeply superficial person.

Andy Warhol

#49. Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.

Andy Warhol

#50. When the Woolworth's-Hot-Fudge-Sundae switch goes on, then I know I really have something.

Andy Warhol

#51. I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.

Andy Warhol

#52. Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

Andy Warhol

#53. The lobbies are always the best-looking place in the hotel-you wish you could bring out a cot and sleep in them. Compared to the lobby, your room always looks like a closet.

Andy Warhol

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. If you can convince yourself that you look fabulous, you can save yourself the trouble of primping.

Andy Warhol

#57. Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it.

Andy Warhol

#58. When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#59. The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.

Andy Warhol

#60. Making money is art. And working is art. And good business is the best art.

Andy Warhol

#61. Guy Peellaert was to Europe what Andy Warhol was to America - except Guy had more talent!

Jim Steranko

#62. Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

Andy Warhol

#63. I was a product of Andy Warhol's Factory. All I did was sit there and observe these incredibly talented and creative people who were continually making art, and it was impossible not to be affected by that.

Lou Reed

#64. Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.

Andy Warhol

#65. The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.

Andy Warhol

#66. 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

#67. You know it's ART, when the check clears.

Andy Warhol

#68. I love Andy Warhol!

Anton Yelchin

#69. The President has so much good publicity potential that hasn't been exploited. He should just sit down one day and make a list of all the things that people are embarrassed to do that they shouldn't be embarrassed to do, and then do them all on television.

Andy Warhol

#70. Publicity is like eating peanuts. Once you start you can't stop.

Andy Warhol

#71. In The Past, Andy Warhol Will Be Psychic For 15 seconds

Dean Cavanagh

#72. Day after day I look in the mirror and I still see something

Andy Warhol

#73. The wide multitude wanted to seem contrarian. It meant that this type of nonconformism had to be mass-produced.

Andy Warhol

#74. The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

Andy Warhol

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

Andy Warhol

#76. There should be a course in first grade on love.

Andy Warhol

#77. What I did suffer when I was young was because I was sort of a hick coming into New York City. I was made fun of by a lot of the Factory people. Even Andy Warhol thought I was a hick.

Kristen Stewart

#78. Andy Warhol's art wasn't that interesting to me. He was more interesting to me as a person. He was art himself. I don't even think he was really into art, per se. He may have liked to do it, but I think he was more into people being into him.

ASAP Ferg

#79. You should always have a product that has nothing to do with who you are or what people think about you ... so that you never start thinking that your product is you, or your fame or your aura.

Andy Warhol

#80. Even beauties can be unattractive. If you catch a beauty in the wrong light at the right time, forget it. I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. I believe in plastic surgery.

Andy Warhol

#81. I love going out every night. It's so exciting.

Andy Warhol

#82. You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.

Andy Warhol

#83. I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD BE BUGGED ALL THE TIME ... BUGGED AND PHOTOGRAPHED

Andy Warhol

#84. I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!

J.G. Ballard

#85. Everything is beautiful. Pop is everything.

Andy Warhol

#86. I really don't care that much about 'Beauties'. What I really like are Talkers ... Talkers are doing something. Beauties are being something ...

Andy Warhol

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

Andy Warhol

#88. A lot of people found themselves working at the Factory and some even in his bed as a result of random occurrences like your call. Most famous artists have never been all that interested in meeting strangers. That was not the case with Andy Warhol at all.

Bob Colacello

#89. Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world.

Andy Warhol

#90. Everybody must have a fantasy.

Andy Warhol

#91. 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

#92. I will find your books and review with nastiness.

Andy Warhol

#93. I've been invited to the White House about five times. I think the greatest thing would be if they actually invited everybody to the White House every night ... they'd just take about 500 people a night. Everybody would just love this country because it's so thrilling to go there. It really is.

Andy Warhol

#94. I've never met a person I've couldn't call a beauty.

Andy Warhol

#95. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love.

Andy Warhol

#96. I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London.

Marianne Faithfull

#97. Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that.

Andy Warhol

#98. The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

Andy Warhol

#99. Every time I work with Dr. Luke I learn something new. He's kind of like the Andy Warhol of pop music, where he mass produces his art but it always still has heart and always still has an emotional thread to it. I think he's really a genius and I'm so lucky to have gotten to work with him.

Bonnie McKee

#100. After Wakefield Poole's films, mine are unnecessary and a bit naive, don't you think?

Andy Warhol