Andy Warhol Quotes

Andy Warhol Quotes

People should fall in love with their eyes closed.

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

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should 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'.

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.

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

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

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

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

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

I never read. I just look at pictures.

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.

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex.

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

Everybody must have a fantasy.

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

Art is what you can get away with.

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

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

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.

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.

You know it's ART, when the check clears.

History books are being re-written all the time

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.

Just because people throw it out and don't have any use for it, doesn't mean it's garbage.

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

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