Andy Warhol > Quotes

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

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

“People should fall in love with their eyes closed.”
― Andy Warhol

“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.”
― Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol in His Own Words

“Art is what you can get away with.”
― Andy Warhol

“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting”
― Andy Warhol

“Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.”
― Andy Warhol

“I never fall apart, because I never fall together.”
― Andy Warhol

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

“I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.”
― Andy Warhol

“I think everybody should be nice to everybody.”
― Andy Warhol

“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

“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.”
― Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol, Thirty Are Better Than One

“It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.”
― Andy Warhol

“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.”
― Andy Warhol

“Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.”
― Andy Warhol

“Everybody must have a fantasy.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“Beauty is a sign of intelligence.”
― Andy Warhol

“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”
― Andy Warhol

“I like boring things.”
― Andy Warhol

“A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.”
― Andy Warhol

“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

“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

“And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.”
― Andy Warhol

“In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.”
― Andy Warhol

“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

“I'm not afraid to die; I just don't want to be there when it happens”
― Andy Warhol

“I always think about what it means to wear eyeglasses. When you get used to glasses you don't know how far you could really see. I think about all the people before eyeglasses were invented. It must have been weird because everyone was seeing in different ways according to how bad their eyes were. Now, eyeglasses standardize everyone's vision to 20-20. That's an example of everyone becoming more alike. Everyone could be seeing at different levels if it weren't for glasses.”
― Andy Warhol

“I am a deeply superficial person.”
― Andy Warhol

“The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.”
― Andy Warhol

“What's great about this country is America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good.”
― Andy Warhol

“But I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party”
― Andy Warhol

“I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.”
― Andy Warhol

“I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.”
― Andy Warhol

“Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.”
― Andy Warhol

“I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs.”
― Andy Warhol

“I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts.”
― Andy Warhol

“Everyone winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.”
― Andy Warhol

“Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?”
― Andy Warhol

“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

“People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don’t look and it’s magic”
― Andy Warhol

“As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.”
― Andy Warhol

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

“If everyone isn't beautiful, then no one is.”
― Andy Warhol

“You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.”
― Andy Warhol

“I had a lot of dates, but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.”
― Andy Warhol

“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”
― Andy Warhol

“Most people in America think Art is a man's name.”
― Andy Warhol

“I think it would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol