Andy Warhol Quotes

Bad taste makes the day go by faster.

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

Beauty really has to do with the way a person carries it off

I really like to work a lot. It makes time go by fast.

One person in the 60s fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love

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

Everybody does the same thing over and over again. I like to do the same thing every day.

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

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

Publicity is like eating peanuts. Once you start you can’t stop.

I never fall apart, because I never fall together.

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.

Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.

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

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.

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

People in uniform always look so great.

People should fall in love with their eyes closed.

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.

Wasting money puts you in a real party mood.

I always think about what it means to wear eyeglasses. When you get used to glasses you don't know how far you could really see. I think about all the people before eyeglasses were invented. It must have been weird because everyone was seeing in different ways according to how bad their eyes were. Now, eyeglasses standardize everyone's vision to 20-20. That's an example of everyone becoming more alike. Everyone could be seeing at different levels if it weren't for glasses.

The clothes of Courreges are so nice.

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

Look poor, think rich.

When you do something exactly wrong, you always turn up something.

Success is when the checks don’t bounce.

My image is a statement of the symbols of the harsh, impersonal products and brash materialistic objects on which America is built today. It is a projection of everything that can be bought and sold, and practical but impermanent symbols that sustain us.

The best museum is Bloomingdales.

So many people have so many problems. When you think that health is wealth, you're so grateful just to be normal, more or less. Aren't you?

Remember, they've never seen you before in their life.

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.

Space is all one space and thought is all one thought, but my mind divides its spaces into spaces into spaces and thoughts into thoughts into thoughts. Like a large condominium. Occasionally I think about the one Space and the one Thought, but usually I don't. Usually I think about my condominium.

Land really is the best art.

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

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

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.

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

I went to vote once, but I got too scared. I couldn't decide whom to vote for.

So today if you see a person who looks like your teenage fantasy walking down the street, it's probably not your fantasy, but someone who had the same fantasy as you and decided instead of getting it or being it, to look like it, and so he went to the store and bought the look that you both like. So forget it. Just think about all the James Deans and what it means.

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

All photography is Pop, and all photographers are crazy... they feel guilty since they don't have to do very much - just push a button.

Art? That's a man's name.

Everything is beautiful. Pop is everything.

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

Security breeds stagnation.

The world fascinates me.

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.