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Andy Warhol Quotes



Quotes by Andy Warhol - (31 quotes)

Andy Warhol - From the Art category:

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. (Andy Warhol)

Andy Warhol - From the Art category:

Pop art is a way of liking things. (Andy Warhol)

Andy Warhol - From the Art category:

-originated from contemporary Marshall McLuhan...
Art is anything you can get away with. (Andy Warhol)

Andy Warhol - From the Artists category:

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. (Andy Warhol)

Andy Warhol - From the Artists category:

Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job. (Andy Warhol)

Andy Warhol - From the Business category:

Business Art is the step that comes after Art. (Andy Warhol)

Andy Warhol - From the Business category:

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible. (Andy Warhol)

Andy Warhol - From the Change category:

They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. (Andy Warhol)

Andy Warhol - From the Commerce category:

Success is what sells. (Andy Warhol)

Andy Warhol - From the Criticism category:

I am a deeply superficial person. (Andy Warhol)

Andy Warhol - From the Critics category:

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. (Andy Warhol)

Andy Warhol - From the Critics category:

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)

Andy Warhol - From the Difficulty category:

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)

Andy Warhol - From the Ego category:

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)

Andy Warhol - From the Fantasy category:

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. (Andy Warhol)

Andy Warhol - From the Future category:

In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. (Andy Warhol)

Andy Warhol - From the Habit category:

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)

Andy Warhol - From the Humanity category:

I want everybody to think alike. I think everybody should be a machine. (Andy Warhol)

Andy Warhol - From the Instinct category:

When I have to think about it, I know the picture is wrong... 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)

Andy Warhol - From the Life category:

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. (Andy Warhol)

Andy Warhol - From the Life category:

Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star. (Andy Warhol)

Andy Warhol - From the Love category:

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)

Andy Warhol - From the Love category:

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. (Andy Warhol)

Andy Warhol - From the Meaning category:

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. (Andy Warhol)

Andy Warhol - From the Money category:

Money has a certain kind of amnesty. (Andy Warhol)

Andy Warhol - From the Profession category:

Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job. (Andy Warhol)

Andy Warhol - From the Recognition category:

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)

Andy Warhol - From the Standards category:

- on the 'big eyed' Keane paintings...
It has to be good. If it were bad, so many people wouldn't like it. (Andy Warhol)

Andy Warhol - From the Subject category:

I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it. (Andy Warhol)

Andy Warhol - From the Taste category:

Bad taste makes the day go by faster. (Andy Warhol)

Andy Warhol - From the Understanding category:

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)