Andy Warhol Quotes
They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
(The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, 1975)
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
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.
Everybody must have a fantasy.
In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.
I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts.
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
I am a deeply superficial person.
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.
Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.
The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting.
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.
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
I've never met a person I couldn't call a beauty.
I don't see anything wrong with being alone, it feels great to me.
I think everybody should like everybody.
I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.
Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good night.
I never fall apart, because I never fall together.
People should fall in love with their eyes closed.
Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.
Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.
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.
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.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
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.
An artist is somebody 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.
