Andy Warhol famous quotes

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.
-- Andy Warhol

#Fashion #Reason

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

#Inspirational #Life #Change

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
-- Andy Warhol

#Art #Minutes

There should be a course in first grade on love.
-- Andy Warhol

#Firsts #Should #Grades

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

#Tombstone #Names #Figments

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

#Art #Ugly #Warhol

Everybody must have a fantasy.
-- Andy Warhol

#Fantasy

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

#Break Up #Years #People

I’m really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts
-- Andy Warhol

#Lasts #Feels

I think everybody should like everybody.
-- Andy Warhol

#Thinking #Should

In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.
-- Andy Warhol

#Future #World #Fifteen

Art is what you can get away with.
-- Andy Warhol

#Art #Freedom #Creativity

People should fall in love with their eyes closed.
-- Andy Warhol

#Love #Fall #Eye

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

#Boredom #Needs #Thrill

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

#Beautiful #Art #Nature

When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be a boss. A boss who could tell me what to do, because that makes everything easy when you're working.
-- Andy Warhol

#Happiness #Thinking #Boss

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.
-- Andy Warhol

#Average #People #Being Different

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
-- Andy Warhol

#War #Artist

Buying is more American than thinking, and I'm as American as they come.
-- Andy Warhol

#Thinking #Buying

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

#Art #Long #Looks

I think anybody can take a good picture. My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous. It's being in the right place at the wrong time.
-- Andy Warhol

#Thinking #Ideas #Focus

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

#Art #Powerful #Writing

When I did my self-portrait, I left all the pimples out because you always should. Pimples are a temporary condition and they don't have anything to do with what you really look like. Always omit the blemishes-they're not part of the good picture you want.
-- Andy Warhol

#Self #Portraits #Looks

The only time I ever want to be something is outside a party so I can get in.
-- Andy Warhol

#Party #Want

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

#Art #Hate #Creativity

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

#Art #Business #Design

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.
-- Andy Warhol

#Death #Dying #Details

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

#Change #People #Want

I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is.
-- Andy Warhol

#Life Is #Week #Broke

I am a deeply superficial person.
-- Andy Warhol

#Drinking #Personality #Luck

I always think I don't do the first one good, so I try to do it more.
-- Andy Warhol

#Thinking #Trying #Firsts

Good business is the best art of all.
-- Andy Warhol

#Art #Good Business #Best Art

I never read, I just look at pictures,
-- Andy Warhol

#Looks

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.
-- Andy Warhol

#Beautiful #Artist #Hollywood

I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.
-- Andy Warhol

#Art #Thinking #Doe

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.
-- Andy Warhol

#Thinking #Littles #Photographer

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.
-- Andy Warhol

#Thinking #Photographer

People are always calling me a mirror and if a mirror looks into a mirror, what is there to see?
-- Andy Warhol

#Mirrors #People #Looks

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

#Money #People #Suggestions

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art
-- Andy Warhol

#Art #Business #Management

The world fascinates me.
-- Andy Warhol

#World

I never fall apart, because I never fall together.
-- Andy Warhol

#Fall #Together #Falling Apart

I always notice flowers.
-- Andy Warhol

#Flower

Whenever I’m interested in something, I know the timing’s off, because I’m always interested in the right thing at the wrong time. I should just be getting interested after I’m not interested any more.
-- Andy Warhol

#Timing #Should #Not Interested

Pop art is about liking things.
-- Andy Warhol

#Art #Pops #Art Is

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.
-- Andy Warhol

#Inspirational #Photography #I Hate You

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

#Believe #Mirrors #Light

The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it’s a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor.
-- Andy Warhol

#Keys #Doors #Democracy

Day after day I look in the mirror and I still see something
-- Andy Warhol

#Mirrors #Looks #Stills

I think pot should be legal. I don’t smoke it, but I like the smell of it.
-- Andy Warhol

#Weed #Marijuana #Thinking

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.
-- Andy Warhol

#Inspirational #Children #Willing

Kiss me with your eyes.
-- Andy Warhol

#Eye #Kissing #Kiss Me

If everybody's not a beauty, then nobody is
-- Andy Warhol

The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is
-- Andy Warhol

#Ideas #America #Wonderful

I want to die with my blue jeans on.
-- Andy Warhol

#Fashion #Blue #Jeans

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.
-- Andy Warhol

#Sex #Sexuality #All Time

People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.
-- Andy Warhol

#People #Interesting #Together

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

#Art #Slavery #Born

Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.
-- Andy Warhol

#Art #Jobs #Thinking

Two people kissing always look like fish.
-- Andy Warhol

#Kissing #Two #People

Maybe the reason my memory is so bad is that I always do at least two things at once. It's easier to forget something you only half-did or quarter did.
-- Andy Warhol

#Happiness #Memories #Two

Rodeo Drive is a giant butterscotch sundae.
-- Andy Warhol

#Giants #Rodeo #Butterscotch

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it
-- Andy Warhol

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

#Happiness #Emotional #People

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

#Art #Gone #Mystery

Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button.
-- Andy Warhol

#Photography #Buttons #Photographer

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.
-- Andy Warhol

#Dancer #Tap Dancers #Painter

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.
-- Andy Warhol

#Artist #Stink #Mass

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

#Art #Business #Thinking

People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like you're watching television -- you don't feel anything.
-- Andy Warhol

#Strong #Real #People

I like boring things.
-- Andy Warhol

#Photographer #Boring

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

#Love #Reality #Opposites

There are beautiful sounds in rock. Very lazy, dreamlike noises. You can forget about the lyrics in most songs. Just dig the noise, and you've got your sound...We're musical primitives.
-- Andy Warhol

#Beautiful #Song #Rocks

A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.
-- Andy Warhol

#Mean #Diaries #Photographer

I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.
-- Andy Warhol

#Forever #Lasts #Wonder

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

#Jade #Enough #Exciting

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting
-- Andy Warhol

#Ideas #Waiting #Anticipation

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
-- Andy Warhol

#War #Sleep #Thinking

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.
-- Andy Warhol

#Photography #Artist #Ideas

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.
-- Andy Warhol

#Art #Thinking #People

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

#Funny #Dog #Art

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

#Beauty #Home #Artist

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

#Running #Gambling #America

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

#Life #Positive #People

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

#Funny #Witty #Caring

Most people in America think Art is a man's name.
-- Andy Warhol

#Art #Men #Thinking

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
-- Andy Warhol

#Sex #War #Pages

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

#Opposites #Two #Exciting

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

#Art #Bored #Use

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.
-- Andy Warhol

#Photographer

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

#Baby #War #People

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.
-- Andy Warhol

#Interesting #Photographer #Right Thing

Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.
-- Andy Warhol

#Artist #America #Way

Land really is the best art.
-- Andy Warhol

#Art #Nature #Land

But I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party
-- Andy Warhol

#Party #Two #Three

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.
-- Andy Warhol

#Artist #Would Be #Liz

A friend of mine always says, ‘Women love me for the man I’m not.’
-- Andy Warhol

#Men #He Man

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.
-- Andy Warhol

#Thinking #Would Be #Want

I will go to the Opening of Anything, including a Toilet Seat
-- Andy Warhol

#Toilet Seat #Toilets #Opening

Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.
-- Andy Warhol

#Art #Jobs #Directors