Top 250 Andy Warhol Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Voyeurism is a director’s job description. It’s an artist’s, too.”

— Andy Warhol

102. “Everybody must have a fantasy.”

— Andy Warhol

103. “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.”

— Andy Warhol

104. “Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone’s got to take care of all your details.”

— Andy Warhol

105. “Sometimes the little times you don’t think are anything while they’re happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.”

— Andy Warhol

106. “I used to drink Coke all the time. It was so good. It gives you a lot of energy.”

— Andy Warhol

107. “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.’”

— Andy Warhol

108. “The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.”

— Andy Warhol

109. “I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It’s art if you see it as art.”

— Andy Warhol

110. “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.”

— Andy Warhol

111. “I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.”

— Andy Warhol

112. “I’m bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is ‘In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.’”

— Andy Warhol

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

— Andy Warhol

114. “I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.”

— Andy Warhol

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

— Andy Warhol

116. “I want to be a machine.”

— Andy Warhol

117. “Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.”

— Andy Warhol

118. “Switzerland is my favorite place now, because it’s so – nothing. There is absolutely nothing to do.”

— Andy Warhol

119. “You’d be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.”

— Andy Warhol

120. “The best museum is Bloomingdales.”

— Andy Warhol

121. “Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don’t have it.”

— Andy Warhol

122. “A picture means I know where I was every minute. That’s why I take pictures. It’s a visual diary.”

— Andy Warhol

123. “My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street.”

— Andy Warhol

124. “I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don’t try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordina ry.”

— Andy Warhol

125. “Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.”

— Andy Warhol

126. “James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time.”

— Andy Warhol

127. “If I had gone ahead and died ten years ago, I’d probably be a cult figure today.”

— Andy Warhol

128. “I can never get over when you’re on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.”

— Andy Warhol

129. “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.”

— Andy Warhol

130. “I always notice flowers.”

— Andy Warhol

131. “Beauty is a sign of intelligence.”

— Andy Warhol

132. “Just because people throw it out and don’t have any use for it, doesn’t mean it’s garbage.”

— Andy Warhol

133. “Don’t think about making art...”

— Andy Warhol

134. “It must be hard to be a model, because you’d want to be like the photograph of you, and you can’t ever look that way.”

— Andy Warhol

135. “Exposure and attention make a work famous – the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.”

— Andy Warhol

136. “Traveling makes time go fast. So maybe traveling in space will give people time.”

— Andy Warhol

137. “Success is when the checks don’t bounce.”

— Andy Warhol

138. “Business Art is the step that comes after Art.”

— Andy Warhol

139. “I’m for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.”

— Andy Warhol

140. “I like to work when I’m not working – do something that may not be considered work, but to me it’s work. Getting exercise by going to the grocery store.”

— Andy Warhol

141. “I went to vote once, but I got too scared. I couldn’t decide whom to vote for.”

— Andy Warhol

142. “I never understand how the lipstick business goes on because lipstick lasts forever.”

— Andy Warhol

143. “People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it’s the way things happen to you in life that’s unreal. The movies make emotions look strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it’s like you’re watching television – you don’t feel anything.”

— Andy Warhol

144. “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.”

— Andy Warhol

145. “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.”

— Andy Warhol

146. “People’s fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn’t have fantasies you wouldn’t have problems because you’d just take whatever was there.”

— Andy Warhol

147. “I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is.”

— Andy Warhol

148. “I don’t believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back.”

— Andy Warhol

149. “Everything is beautiful. Pop is everything.”

— Andy Warhol

150. “When you work with people who misunderstand you, instead of getting transmissions, you get transmutations, and that’s much more interesting in the long run.”

— Andy Warhol