Top 250 Andy Warhol Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “I don’t believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back.”

— Andy Warhol

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

— Andy Warhol

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

— Andy Warhol

154. “Even beauties can be unattractive. If you catch a beauty in the wrong light at the right time, forget it. I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. I believe in plastic surgery.”

— Andy Warhol

155. “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

156. “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.”

— Andy Warhol

157. “I will go to the Opening of Anything, including a Toilet Seat.”

— Andy Warhol

158. “Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.”

— Andy Warhol

159. “Everything will be art and nothing will be art, because everything, as I believe, already is.”

— Andy Warhol

160. “The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is.”

— Andy Warhol

161. “Rodeo Drive is a giant butterscotch sundae.”

— Andy Warhol

162. “Why do people think artists are special? It’s just another job.”

— Andy Warhol

163. “What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.”

— Andy Warhol

164. “Everything is more glamorous when you do it in bed anyway.”

— Andy Warhol

165. “I can’t remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It’s frustrating because sometimes I dream that I’m watching a really good movie.”

— Andy Warhol

166. “I always hear myself saying, ‘She’s a beauty!’ or ‘He’s a beauty!’ or ‘What a beauty!’ but I never know what I’m talking about.”

— Andy Warhol

167. “I don’t know where the artificial stops and the real starts.”

— Andy Warhol

168. “There should be a course in first grade on love.”

— Andy Warhol

169. “Went to Studio 54 where there was a birthday party for the black star on Saturday Night Live who’s just signed to do a movie with Paramount. Eddie Murphy.”

— Andy Warhol

170. “Once you ‘got’ Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.”

— Andy Warhol

171. “I really do live for the future, because when I’m eating a box of candy, I can’t wait to taste the last piece. I don’t even taste any of the other pieces, I just want to finish and throw the box away and not have to have it on my mind any more. I would rather either have it now or know I’ll never have it so I don’t have to think about it.”

— Andy Warhol

172. “I like church. It’s empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York.”

— Andy Warhol

173. “I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.”

— Andy Warhol

174. “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.”

— Andy Warhol

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

— Andy Warhol

176. “I like to be the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place. Being the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place is worth it because something interesting always happens.”

— Andy Warhol

177. “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.”

— Andy Warhol

178. “You have to hang on in periods when your style isn’t popular, because if it’s good, it’ll come back, and you’ll be a recognized beauty once again.”

— Andy Warhol

179. “You can be just as faithful to a place or a thing as you can to a person. A place can really make your heart skip a beat, especially if you have to take a plane to get there.”

— Andy Warhol

180. “I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.”

— Andy Warhol

181. “In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like “charming” and “clever” and “pretty” are all put-downs; all the lighter things in life, which are the most important things, are put down.”

— Andy Warhol

182. “Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil – of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them and tape-record them. But I didn’t think of myself as evil – just realistic.”

— Andy Warhol

183. “I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of ‘work,’ because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don’t always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.”

— Andy Warhol

184. “I get so tired of painting. I’ve been trying to give it up all the time, if we could just make a living out of movies or the newspaper business or something. It’s so boring, painting the same picture over and over.”

— Andy Warhol

185. “When I look at things, I always see the space they occupy. I always want the space to reappear, to make a comeback, because it’s lost space when there’s something in it.”

— Andy Warhol

186. “You know it’s ART, when the check clears.”

— Andy Warhol

187. “Nutty people are always writing me. I always think I must be on some nutty mailing list.”

— Andy Warhol

188. “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.”

— Andy Warhol

189. “New York restaurants are about selling atmospheres.”

— Andy Warhol

190. “Employees make the best dates. You don’t have to pick them up and they’re always tax-deductible.”

— Andy Warhol

191. “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.”

— Andy Warhol

192. “I never met a pet I didn’t like.”

— Andy Warhol

193. “The interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me to say and I’ll repeat them after him. I think that would be so great because I’m so empty I just can’t think of anything to say.”

— Andy Warhol

194. “If you’re traveling for five years or something like that, you’re going somewhere. But five years are being used up, and you don’t have to do anything. You just sit on the plane. That might make time go really fast.”

— Andy Warhol

195. “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.”

— Andy Warhol

196. “I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It’s art if you see it as art. The best art are those dime novels. People will put those books in a museum one day. Artists will make paintings of them. They’re beautiful. And for everyone. That’s how I want my art to be.”

— Andy Warhol

197. “When I was in the hospital after I was shot they gave me drugs, but it was so great to get off those.”

— Andy Warhol

198. “So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.”

— Andy Warhol

199. “I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.”

— Andy Warhol

200. “I read an article on me once that described my machine-method of silk-screen copying and painting: ‘What a bold and audacious solution, what depths of the man are revealed in this solution!’ What does that mean?”

— Andy Warhol