Andy Warhol Quotes

Pop art is a way of liking things.

I admit to having worn suede and leather pants myself for a while, but you just never feel clean, and it's degenerate, anyway, to wear animal skins.... So I went back to bluejeans after my degenerate period.

There should be a course in the first grade on love.

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.

I've always thought that the President could do so much here to help change images. If the President would go into a public bathroom in the Capitol, and have the TV cameras film him cleaning the toilets and saying 'Why not? Somebody's got to do it!' then that would do so much for the morale of the people who do the wonderful job of keeping the toilets clean. I mean, it is a wonderful thing that they're doing.

Sociological critics are waste makers.

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.

It's funny when people don't know you and they meet you for the first time and think you're so great. When fans know you for more than three or four times the magic is gone.

You meet rich people and you hang around with them, and one night they've had a few drinks and they say 'I'll buy it!' Then they tell their friends, 'You must have this person's work, darling,' and that's all you need. That's all it takes. Get it?

Everybody must have a fantasy.

I think everybody should like everybody.

What I was actually trying to do in my early movies was show how people can meet other people and what they can do and what they can say to each other. That was the whole idea: two people getting acquainted.

Everyone needs a fantasy.

I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.

Don't think about making art.

At the times in my life when I was feeling the most gregarious and looking for bosom friendships, I couldn't find any takers, so that exactly when I was alone was when I felt the most like not being alone... I became a loner in my own mind... I decided I'd rather be alone.

I never read, I just look at pictures.

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

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

Edward Smith: What do you think is the characteristic of a really nice person? Some people you obviously do like more than others. Andy Warhol: Ummm, well, if they talk a lot. ES: What, and don't make you talk? AW: Yeah, yes, that's a really nice person.

Uptown is for people who have already done something. Downtown is where they’re doing something now. I live uptown but I love downtown.

Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?

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

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

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

I'd rather do new stuff. The old stuff is better to talk about than to see. It always sounds better than it really is.

Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.

Sports figures are to the '70s what movie stars were to the '60s.

The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can't be on your own, wich is always so much better.

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

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

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.

My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.' As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong. And the more you decide about, the more wrong it gets.

I think it would be great to make a $2 million or $3 million art movie where nobody would really have to go to it. I thought that would be a good project to work on . . . do something really artistic.

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.

I thought that young people had more problems than old people...Then I looked around and saw that everybody who looked young had young problems and that everybody who looked old had old problems.

If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not. I guess it's for our own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is when having them won't make you go crazy.

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

I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.

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

Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.

When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other 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.

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

I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.

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

I love going out every night. It’s so exciting.

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