Top 250 Andy Warhol Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “After Wakefield Poole’s films, mine are unnecessary and a bit naive, don’t you think?”

— Andy Warhol

202. “I like money on the wall. Say you were going to buy a $200,000 painting. I think you should take that money, tie it up, and hang it on the wall. Then when someone visited you the first thing they would see is the money on the wall.”

— Andy Warhol

203. “I’d asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, ‘Well, what do you love most?’ That’s how I started painting money.”

— Andy Warhol

204. “I love going out every night. It’s so exciting.”

— Andy Warhol

205. “I really like to work a lot. It makes time go by fast.”

— Andy Warhol

206. “Most people in America think Art is a man’s name.”

— Andy Warhol

207. “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.”

— Andy Warhol

208. “When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be a boss. A boss who could tell me what to do, because that makes everything easy when you’re working.”

— Andy Warhol

209. “I’ve never made the separation between, say, the museum and the hardware store. I mean, I enjoy both of them, and I want to combine the two.”

— Andy Warhol

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

— Andy Warhol

211. “I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell?”

— Andy Warhol

212. “The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.”

— Andy Warhol

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

— Andy Warhol

214. “Space is all one space and thought is all one thought, but my mind divides its spaces into spaces into spaces and thoughts into thoughts into thoughts. Like a large condominium. Occasionally I think about the one Space and the one Thought, but usually I don’t. Usually I think about my condominium.”

— Andy Warhol

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

— Andy Warhol

216. “During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don’t think they’ve ever remembered.”

— Andy Warhol

217. “Free countries are great, because you can actually sit in somebody else’s space for a while and pretend you’re a part of it. You can sit in the Plaza Hotel and you don’t even have to live there. You can just sit and watch the people go by.”

— Andy Warhol

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

— Andy Warhol

219. “The symptom of love is when some of the chemicals inside you go bad. So there must be something in love because your chemicals do tell you something.”

— Andy Warhol

220. “A friend of mine always says, ‘Women love me for the man I’m not.’”

— Andy Warhol

221. “The clothes of Courreges are so nice.”

— Andy Warhol

222. “When the Woolworth’s-Hot-Fudge-Sundae switch goes on, then I know I really have something.”

— Andy Warhol

223. “I do mostly portraits. So it’s just people’s faces, not really any ideas.”

— Andy Warhol

224. “Whenever I’m interested in something, I know the timing’s off, because I’m always interested in the right thing at the wrong time. I should just be getting interested after I’m not interested any more.”

— Andy Warhol

225. “I think pot should be legal. I don’t smoke it, but I like the smell of it.”

— Andy Warhol

226. “I went over to Regine’s to interview Michael Jackson of the Jackson 5. He’s very tall now, but he has a really high voice. He had a big guy with him, maybe a bodyguard and the girl from The Wiz.”

— Andy Warhol

227. “I wish I hadn’t made so many images.”

— Andy Warhol

228. “History books are being re-written all the time.”

— Andy Warhol

229. “It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor’s finger.”

— Andy Warhol

230. “Sociological critics are waste makers.”

— Andy Warhol

231. “I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.”

— Andy Warhol

232. “The only time I ever want to be something is outside a party so I can get in.”

— Andy Warhol

233. “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.”

— Andy Warhol

234. “I’d rather do new stuff. The old stuff is better to talk about than to see. It always sounds better than it really is.”

— Andy Warhol

235. “Bad taste makes the day go by faster.”

— Andy Warhol

236. “Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that seems to be what is happening.”

— Andy Warhol

237. “I used to cut out paper dolls.”

— Andy Warhol

238. “We live in an age when the traditional great subjects – the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism – are daily devalued by commercial art.”

— Andy Warhol

239. “Beauty really has to do with the way a person carries it off.”

— Andy Warhol

240. “Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, “I knew he loved me when de didn’t come in my mouth.”

— Andy Warhol

241. “Buying is much more American than thinking.”

— Andy Warhol

242. “Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they’ll just have to learn how to be babies longer.”

— Andy Warhol

243. “I think Chris Burden is terrific. I really do.”

— Andy Warhol

244. “I really hate heights. I always like to live on the first floor.”

— Andy Warhol

245. “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’.”

— Andy Warhol

246. “Money has a certain kind of amnesty.”

— Andy Warhol

247. “I’ll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.”

— Andy Warhol

248. “I think video is the best market. When the cassette market comes out, if you just do movies that nobody else can do, that’ll be the new way.”

— Andy Warhol

249. “My style was always to spread out rather than to move up.”

— Andy Warhol

250. “Remember, they’ve never seen you before in their life.”

— Andy Warhol