Andy Warhol Quotes

If everybody's not a beauty, then nobody is

I don’t know anybody who doesn’t have a fantasy. Everybody must have a fantasy.

I loved working when I worked at commercial art and they told you what to do and how to do it and all you had to do was correct it and they'd say yes or no. The hard thing is when you have to dream up the tasteless things to do on your own.

Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that.

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.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art

I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody.

Some people look 40 when they're 40. People look the way they're supposed to look at any age.

I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.

You need to let little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

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.

Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good-night.

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

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?

The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will

[My vision of America is] a good vision. Actually the best is on TV. I wanted to shoot all the pictures off the TV. No one would have known the difference.

I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD BE BUGGED ALL THE TIME...BUGGED AND PHOTOGRAPHED

The lobbies are always the best-looking place in the hotel-you wish you could bring out a cot and sleep in them. Compared to the lobby, your room always looks like a closet.

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

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

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

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.

Believe me... I've made a career out of being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. That's one thing... I really do know about.

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

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.

If you wear a wig, everybody notices. But if you then dye the wig, people notice the dye.

Looking younger and being younger is the adolescence idea.

Don't think about making art, just get it done.

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, Coke bottles. All the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried not to notice at all.

Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it.

When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can't believe that people are still pregnant.

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

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what." "My mother didn't love me." So what. "My husband won't ball me. So what. "I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what. I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.

I'm a deeply superficial person.

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

I want to be a machine.

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

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.

I like boring things.

I just [take pictures] because the camera is something to carry around in my pocket.

The wide multitude wanted to seem contrarian. It meant that this type of nonconformism had to be mass-produced.

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

I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up.

The moment you label something, you take a step-I mean, you can never go back again to seeing it unlabelled.

Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see.

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

I like to be the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. But usually being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space is worth it, because something funny always happens.

Every song has a memory; every song has the ability to make or break your heart, shut down the heart, and open the eyes. But I’m afraid if you look at a thing long enough; it loses all of its meaning