Andy Warhol Quotes

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

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

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.'

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

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.

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

When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people.

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

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

Uptown is for people who have already done something. Downtown is where they’re doing something now. I live uptown but I love downtown.

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.

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

People should fall in love with their eyes closed.

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

Perception precedes reality.

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it

Art is what you can get away with.

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

When you stop wanting something, you get it.

Kiss me with your eyes.

I always notice flowers.

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

People in uniform always look so great.

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

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

Everybody must have a fantasy.

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

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

I'm a thousand different people. Every one is real.

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'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 am a deeply superficial person.

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

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

I think everybody should like everybody.

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

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

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

I never fall apart, because I never fall together.

Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good-night.

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

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