Andy Warhol Quotes (52 Quotes)

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.

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 so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television -- you don't feel anything.

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

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.

It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true 'In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.' I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, 'In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous.

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

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

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

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

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

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

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

Land really is the best art.

In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

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

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.

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

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.

The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.

What we're all looking for is someone who doesn't live there, just pays for it

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

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.

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could 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.'

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

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

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.

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

If everybody's not a beauty, then nobody is.

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.

I love him, I worship him. I masturbate to Duran Duran videos.

I'll endorse with my name any of the following clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY

Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad.

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

The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous."

In the future everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes

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

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

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.

I like boring things.

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

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

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.

I am a deeply superficial person.

In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.