Andy warhol quotes

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

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

As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic.

Look poor, think rich.

You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.

How can you say one style is better than another? You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week, or a Pop artist, or a realist, without feeling you've given up something.. I think that would be so great, to be able to change styles. And I think that's what's is going to happen, that's going to be the whole new scene.

When you stop wanting something, you get it.

I've never met a person I've couldn't call a beauty.

I want to be a machine.

My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat or in film's case 'run on' manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

The interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me to say and I’ll repeat them after him. I think that would be so great because I’m so empty I just can’t think of anything to say.

The wide multitude wanted to seem contrarian. It meant that this type of nonconformism had to be mass-produced.

The best museum is Bloomingdales.

You meet rich people and you hang around with them, and one night they've had a few drinks and they say 'I'll buy it!' Then they tell their friends, 'You must have this person's work, darling,' and that's all you need. That's all it takes. Get it?

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.

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

The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.

I think anybody can take a good picture. My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous. It's being in the right place at the wrong time.

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

Success is what sells.

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

People should fall in love with their eyes closed.

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

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don't want to get too close; I don't like to touch things.

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

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.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece.

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.

Perception precedes reality.

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

Art is what you can get away with.

If you don’t think about it, it’s right.

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it

You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.

The moment you label something, you take a step-I mean, you can never go back again to seeing it unlabelled.

I wake up every morning. I open my eyes and think: here we go again.

Everything will be art and nothing will be art, because everything, as I believe, already is.

Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good-night.

I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is.

A friend of mine always says, ‘Women love me for the man I’m not.’

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 don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.

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

Kiss me with your eyes.

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

I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts.

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it's different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are white, and vice-versa.

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

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.

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

I've always thought that the President could do so much here to help change images. If the President would go into a public bathroom in the Capitol, and have the TV cameras film him cleaning the toilets and saying 'Why not? Somebody's got to do it!' then that would do so much for the morale of the people who do the wonderful job of keeping the toilets clean. I mean, it is a wonderful thing that they're doing.

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

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

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just 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.

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.

Exposure and attention make a work famous - the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.

Fashion is more art than art is

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

The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is

I really don't care that much about "Beauties." What I really like are Talkers. To me, good talkers are beautiful because good talk is what I love. The word itself shows why I like Talkers better than Beauties, why I tape more than I film. It's not "talkies." Talkers are doing something.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.

Day after day I look in the mirror and I still see something

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

I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

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.'

People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.

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

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

Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.

The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.

I always notice flowers.

I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up.

Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don't know whether I'm alive or whether I died. I wasn't afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn't feel fear. But I am afraid. I don't understand why.

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

Everybody must have a fantasy.

Security breeds stagnation.

I’m really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts

The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second — comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators, Coke bottles. All the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried not to notice at all.

The girls in California were probably prettier in a standard sense than the New York girls--blonder and in better health, I guess; but I still preferred the way the girls in New York looked--stranger and more neurotic (a girl always looked more beautiful and fragile when she was about to have a nervous breakdown).

I never fall apart, because I never fall together.

The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can't be on your own, wich is always so much better.

I am a deeply superficial person.

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

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

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

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

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

At the times in my life when I was feeling the most gregarious and looking for bosom friendships, I couldn't find any takers, so that exactly when I was alone was when I felt the most like not being alone... I became a loner in my own mind... I decided I'd rather be alone.

...the more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.

If there's ever a problem, I film it and it's no longer a problem. It's a film.

Success is when the checks don’t bounce.

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

I love the English language just like I love all American things. But I confess that I don't feel confident using complex sentences or big words, hence my famous minimally expressive style - all the "gees" and laconic answers to interviewers. Most of all, I have developed listening as an art form.

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.

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

Space is all one space and thought is all one thought, but my mind divides its spaces into spaces into spaces and thoughts into thoughts into thoughts. Like a large condominium. Occasionally I think about the one Space and the one Thought, but usually I don't. Usually I think about my condominium.

Pop art is about liking things.

Don't think about making art, just get it done.

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

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

Beauty really has to do with the way a person carries it off

I like boring things.

Everyone needs a fantasy.

During the '60s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered. I think that once you see emotions from a certain angle you can never think of them as real again. That's what more or less has happened to me. I don't really know if I was ever capable of love, but after the '60s I never thought in terms of 'love' again.

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.

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

I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.

When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be a boss. A boss who could tell me what to do, because that makes everything easy when you're working.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

I think everybody should like everybody.

I like to be the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. But usually being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space is worth it, because something funny always happens.

There should be a course in the first grade on love.

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

Land really is the best art.

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

I always think I don't do the first one good, so I try to do it more.

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

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

I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

You know it's ART, when the check clears.