Top 250 Andy Warhol Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I don’t want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.”

— Andy Warhol

52. “Day after day I look in the mirror and I still see something.”

— Andy Warhol

53. “Everyone winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.”

— Andy Warhol

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

— Andy Warhol

55. “The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald’s. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald’s. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald’s. Peking and Moscow don’t have anything beautiful yet.”

— Andy Warhol

56. “When you do something exactly wrong, you always turn up something.”

— Andy Warhol

57. “Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?”

— Andy Warhol

58. “Pop art is for everyone.”

— Andy Warhol

59. “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.”

— Andy Warhol

60. “My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat or in film’s case ‘run on’ manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.”

— Andy Warhol

61. “Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it’s different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are white, and vice-versa.”

— Andy Warhol

62. “Making money is art. And working is art. And good business is the best art.”

— Andy Warhol

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

— Andy Warhol

64. “I wonder if it’s possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.”

— Andy Warhol

65. “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

66. “If there’s ever a problem, I film it and it’s no longer a problem. It’s a film.”

— Andy Warhol

67. “The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.”

— Andy Warhol

68. “If everybody’s not a beauty, then nobody is.”

— Andy Warhol

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

— Andy Warhol

70. “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.”

— Andy Warhol

71. “People are always calling me a mirror and if a mirror looks into a mirror, what is there to see?”

— Andy Warhol

72. “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.”

— Andy Warhol

73. “Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.”

— Andy Warhol

74. “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?”

— Andy Warhol

75. “Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.”

— Andy Warhol

76. “When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.”

— Andy Warhol

77. “I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.”

— Andy Warhol

78. “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 how you feel about it.”

— Andy Warhol

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

— Andy Warhol

80. “Wasting money puts you in a real party mood.”

— Andy Warhol

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

— Andy Warhol

82. “If you can convince yourself that you look fabulous, you can save yourself the trouble of primping.”

— Andy Warhol

83. “Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.”

— Andy Warhol

84. “Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad.”

— Andy Warhol

85. “I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.”

— Andy Warhol

86. “Fashion wasn’t what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.”

— Andy Warhol

87. “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.”

— Andy Warhol

88. “Two people kissing always look like fish.”

— Andy Warhol

89. “I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.”

— Andy Warhol

90. “I want everybody to think alike. I think everybody should be a machine.”

— Andy Warhol

91. “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

92. “My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person.”

— Andy Warhol

93. “I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me.”

— Andy Warhol

94. “And your own life while it’s happening to you never has any atmosphere until it’s a memory.”

— Andy Warhol

95. “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?”

— Andy Warhol

96. “Buying is more American than thinking, and I’m as American as they come.”

— Andy Warhol

97. “Art? That’s a man’s name.”

— Andy Warhol

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

— Andy Warhol

99. “I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.”

— Andy Warhol

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

— Andy Warhol