Best Andy Warhol Quotes

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The Best Andy Warhol Quotes: Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 - February 22, 1987)

I hope you enjoy my collection of Andy Warhol quotes from an American painter, a printmaker, and a filmmaker. Andy Warhol was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

After enjoying a successful career as a commercial illustrator, he became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, avant-garde filmmaker, record producer, author, and public figure.

Andy Warhol was known for his membership in diverse social circles that included Hollywood celebrities, bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals and wealthy patrons.

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Andy Warhol Quotes

“Everyone will be famous
for 15 minutes.”

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Self-Portrait, c. 1964 (photo booth pictures)

Self-Portrait, c.1964 (photobooth pictures)


Andy Warhol Quotes (1 - 10)

I think everybody should like everybody.2 points

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting.2 points

I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts.2 points

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.1 point

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.1 point

Art is what you can get away with.0 points

I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.0 points

I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.0 points

I like boring things.0 points

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.0 points

Fantasy




More Andy Warhol Quotes (11 - 20)

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.1 point

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.0 points

I am a deeply superficial person.0 points

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.0 points

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.0 points

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.0 points

Think rich, look poor.0 points

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.0 points

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.0 points

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.0 points

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

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More Andy Warhol Quotes (21 - 30)

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.1 point

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?1 point

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.0 points

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.0 points

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.0 points

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.0 points

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.0 points

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.0 points

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.0 points

There should be a course in first grade on love.0 points

“I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts.”

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Campbell's Soup I, 1968

Campbell's Soup I, 1968



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

More Andy Warhol Quotes (31 - 40)

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.0 points

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.0 points

The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.0 points

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.0 points

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.0 points

I never wanted to be a painter. I wanted to be a tap dancer.0 points

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could 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.0 points

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.0 points

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.0 points

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.0 points

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Andy Warhol Songs

Track Artist Album  
Andy Warhol Danny Michel Loving the Alien (The Songs of David Bowie)
Song of Introduction John Phillips Andy Warhol Presents “Man On the Moon”
Andy Warhol Eli Loving the Alien - Athens, Georgia Salutes David Bowie
Andy Warhol Dana Gillespie Andy Warhol
Sensitive Euro Man (From "I Shot Andy Warhol") Pavement Wowee Zowee (Sordid Sentinels Edition)
Andy Warhol Was Right Warrant Dog Eat Dog
Andy Warhol Strung Out Agents of the Underground

10 Marilyns, 1967

10 Marilyns, 1967



“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.”

More Andy Warhol Quotes (41 - 48)

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.1 point

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.0 points

Everybody must have a fantasy.0 points

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.0 points

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?0 points

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.0 points

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.0 points

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.0 points

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  • rauspitz May 4, 2012 @ 4:46 pm | delete
    Very interesting concept, very good lens.
  • Margo_Arrowsmith Apr 12, 2011 @ 5:13 am | delete
    I only over knew one of his quotes, thanks
  • J9a2m6e8s5B Jan 14, 2011 @ 8:00 am | delete
    "I think everybody should like everybody." I like this lens! Great job...looks like it took a lot of time to build!

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