96 Inspirational Andy Warhol Quotes About Art And Life

Andy Warhol Quotes

Andy Warhol was an American Artist born on August 6, 1928, and died on February 22, 1987.

He was a Visual Artist, filmmaker, and producer who together with Roy Lichtenstein and other artists made Pop Art famous.

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Best Andy Warhol Quotes About Art, Love, Life, And Death

Here are the Best and Most Thought-Provoking Quotes by the Famous Pop Artist, Andy Warhol (The Best Experimental Artist)

1. “Art is anything you can get away with.” ― Andy Warhol
   

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2. Pop art is for everyone. ― Andy Warhol
3. “Pop art is about liking things.” ― Andy Warhol
   

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4. Pop art is a way of liking things.” ― Andy Warhol
5. “The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting” ― Andy Warhol
6. “Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.” ― Andy Warhol
7. “I never read; I just look at pictures.” ― Andy Warhol
8. “Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.” ― Andy Warhol
9. “Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art” ― Andy Warhol
10. “I think everybody should like everybody.” ― Andy Warhol
11. The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second — comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators, and Coke bottles. All the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried not to notice at all.” ― Andy Warhol
    

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12. Making money is art and working is an art and good business is the best art. ― Andy Warhol
13. Land really is the best art. ― Andy Warhol
14. I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. ― Andy Warhol
15. Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. ― Andy Warhol
16. People should fall in love with their eyes closed. ― Andy Warhol
17. An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have. ― Andy Warhol
18. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. ― Andy Warhol
19. 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. ― Andy Warhol
20. 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. ― Andy Warhol
21. I’m really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts” ― Andy Warhol
22. When you stop wanting something, you get it.” ― Andy Warhol
23. I love Los Angeles, and I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. ― Andy Warhol
24. “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
25. 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 at how you feel about it. ― Andy Warhol
26. It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor’s finger. ― Andy Warhol
27. My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat – or in the film’s case ‘run on’ – manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing. ― Andy Warhol
28. I want to die with my blue jeans on. ― Andy Warhol
29. We live in an age when the traditional great subjects – the human form, the landscape, and even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism – are daily devalued by commercial art. ― Andy Warhol
30. The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it’s much more exciting. ― Andy Warhol
31. I like boring things. ― Andy Warhol
32. I am a deeply superficial person. ― Andy Warhol
33. 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
34. I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don’t try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordinary. ― Andy Warhol
35. If you wear a wig, everybody notices. But if you then dye the wig, people notice the dye. ― Andy Warhol
36. Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets. ― Andy Warhol
37. When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships. ― Andy Warhol
38. 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 quote
39. Voyeurism is a director’s job description. It’s an artist’s, too. ― Andy Warhol
40. 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
41. Checks aren’t money. ― Andy Warhol
42. They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. ― Andy Warhol
43. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own. ― Andy Warhol
44. In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. ― Andy Warhol
45. Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves? ― Andy Warhol
46. Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. ― Andy Warhol
47. If you’re not trying to be real, you don’t have to get it right. That’s art. ― Andy Warhol
48. When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums. ― Andy Warhol
49. What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. ― Andy Warhol
50. Everyone needs a fantasy. ― Andy Warhol
51. 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. ― Andy Warhol
52. 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
53. Art? That’s a man’s name. ― Andy Warhol
54. I want to be a machine. ― Andy Warhol Funny quote
55. Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains – daisy chains – of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, and always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between ‘his,’ ‘her’ or ‘their’ wish and yours. ― Andy Warhol
56. My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person. ― Andy Warhol
57. I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows. ― Andy Warhol
58. During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don’t think they’ve ever remembered. ― Andy Warhol
59. 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
60. Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they’ll just have to learn how to be babies longer. ― Andy Warhol
61. I always hear myself saying, ‘She’s a beauty!’ or ‘He’s a beauty!’ or ‘What a beauty!’ but I never know what I’m talking about. ― Andy Warhol
62. I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again. ― Andy Warhol
63. I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell? ― Andy Warhol
64. I never think that people die. They just go to department stores. ― Andy Warhol
65. The clothes of Courreges are so nice. ― Andy Warhol
66. Fantasy love is much better than reality love. ― Andy Warhol’s Quote about Love
67. I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with. ― Andy Warhol
68. 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
69. 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
70. 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. ― Andy Warhol
71. I’m for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction. ― Andy Warhol
72. Employees make the best dates. You don’t have to pick them up and they’re always tax-deductible. – Andy Warhol
73. Employees make the best dates. You don’t have to pick them up and they’re always tax-deductible. ― Andy Warhol
74. I’m bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is ‘In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.’ – Andy Warhol
75. Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil – of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them and tape-record them. But I didn’t think of myself as evil – just realistic. ― Andy Warhol
76. I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine. ― Andy Warhol
77. I’ve decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks. ― Andy Warhol
78. I went to vote once, but I got too scared. I couldn’t decide whom to vote for. ― Andy Warhol
79. Sociological critics are waste makers. ― Andy Warhol
80. 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
81. 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
82. 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
83. I think Chris Burden is terrific. I really do. ― Andy Warhol
84. I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike. ― Andy Warhol
85. I think they should have movies in restaurants. I can’t believe that so many people get together just to sit there. It’s so abstract… isn’t it abstract? What are these people sitting here watching? ― Andy Warhol
86. So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good. ― Andy Warhol
87. I think kids should go to high school until they’re 30. No, really, because people are staying younger now and there’s nothing to do. If you stayed longer, then it would be really great. ― Andy Warhol
88. 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
89. I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something. ― Andy Warhol
90. 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
91. “You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.” ― Andy Warhol
92. “The idea is not to live forever; it is to create something that will.” ― Andy Warhol
93. “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
94. “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” ― Andy Warhol (Andy Warhol quotes 15 minutes)
95. “Sometimes, people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, so what. That is one of my favourite things to say. So what.” ― Andy Warhol
96. Andy Warhol not only changed the way we see experimental art but the way we consume the world around us too. As the radical quite rightly said: “Once you got ‘Pop’, you can never see a sign the same way again.” ― Andy Warhol