Andy Warhol Quotes

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.

Even beauties can be unattractive. If you catch a beauty in the wrong light at the right time, forget it. I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. I believe in plastic surgery.

I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.

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

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.

I never read, I just look at pictures.

People are always calling me a mirror and if a mirror looks into a mirror, what is there to see?

Wasting money puts you in a real party mood.

It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way.

Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I'm seeking out a new way to live and if it's surfing, that's the way I'll do it. I'll be a surfer for the rest of my life.

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.

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

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

I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordina ry.

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

Maybe the reason my memory is so bad is that I always do at least two things at once. It's easier to forget something you only half-did or quarter did.

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

Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.

Bad taste makes the day go by faster.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you can convince yourself that you look fabulous, you can save yourself the trouble of primping.

Buying is more American than thinking, and I'm as American as they come.

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

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.

Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.

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

I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back.

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

I love it when you ask actors, 'What are you Doing now?' and they say 'I'm between roles'. To be living 'life between roles' that's my favorite

If I had gone ahead and died ten years ago, I'd probably be a cult figure today.

I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.

I like church. It's empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York.

Looking younger and being younger is the adolescence idea.

I always hear myself saying , 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about.

When the Woolworth's-Hot-Fudge-Sundae switch goes on, then I know I really have something.