Andy Warhol Quotes

“Art is what you can get away with.”

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

“Everything has it's beauty but not everyone sees it.”

“I never fall apart, because I never fall together.”

“After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex. Of course, for some people it isn't work because they need the exercise and they've got the energy for the sex and the sex gives them even more energy. Some people get energy from sex and some people lose energy from sex. I have found that it's too much work. But if you have the time for it, and if you need that exercise—then you should do it. But you could really save yourself a lot of trouble either way by first figuring out whether you're an energy-getter or an energy-loser. As I said, I'm an energy-loser. But I can understand it when I see people running around trying to get some.”

“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." "My mother didn't love me." So what. "My husband won't ball me." So what. "I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what. I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.”

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

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

“Just because people throw it out and don't have any use for it, doesn't mean it's garbage.”

“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.”

“I think everybody should be nice to everybody.”

“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.”

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

“The nicer I am, the more people think I'm lying.”

“I think it would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.”

“The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.”

“I don't believe in it, because you're not around to know that it's happened. I can't say anything about it because I'm not prepared for it.”

“Kiss me with your eyes.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Beauty is a sign of intelligence.”

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

“Everybody must have a fantasy.”

“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.”

“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”

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

“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”

“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.”

“I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.”

“I like boring things.”

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

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

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

“In the future everyone will have their fifteen minutes of fame”

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

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

“I am a deeply superficial person.”

“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.”

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

“Everyone winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.”

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

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

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

“Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.”

“You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.”

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

“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.”

“I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.”

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

“James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time.”

“You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.”

“There are beautiful sounds in rock. Very lazy, dreamlike noises. You can forget about the lyrics in most songs. Just dig the noise, and you've got your sound… We're musical primitives.”

“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.”

“People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there.”

“Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it’s not good any more.”

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

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

“Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone’s got to take care of all your details.”

“Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?”

“Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.”

“It's the movies that have 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.”

“I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.”

“The world fascinates me.”