Andy Warhol Quotes

The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.

Don't think about making art.

My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.' As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong. And the more you decide about, the more wrong it gets.

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains.

All photography is Pop, and all photographers are crazy... they feel guilty since they don't have to do very much - just push a button.

The world fascinates me.

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.

You have to hang on in periods when your style isn't popular, because if it's good, it'll come back, and you'll be a recognized beauty once again.

Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button.

I never met a pet I didn't like.

I went to vote once, but I got too scared. I couldn't decide whom to vote for.

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

Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory: instead of fifteen minutes of fame, he will have fifteen centuries.

It's great not to be a collector.

New things are always better than old things.

I thought that young people had more problems than old people...Then I looked around and saw that everybody who looked young had young problems and that everybody who looked old had old problems.

The only time I ever want to be something is outside a party so I can get in.

I used to cut out paper dolls.

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

Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.

Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world.

I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.

Art? That's a man's name.

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

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

I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.

If you wear a wig, everybody notices. But if you then dye the wig, people notice the dye.

When you do something exactly wrong, you always turn up something.

Believe me... I've made a career out of being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. That's one thing... I really do know about.

My style was always to spread out rather than to move up.

Sociological critics are waste makers.

I'm a deeply superficial person.

Money has a certain kind of amnesty.

You can be just as faithful to a place or a thing as you can to a person. A place can really make your heart skip a beat, especially if you have to take a plane to get there.

The lobbies are always the best-looking place in the hotel-you wish you could bring out a cot and sleep in them. Compared to the lobby, your room always looks like a closet.

Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that.

When I look at things, I always see the space they occupy. I always want the space to reappear, to make a comeback, because it's lost space when there's something in it.

Publicity is like eating peanuts. Once you start you can’t stop.

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

I think they should have movies in restaurants. I can't believe that so many people get together just to sit there. It's so abstract... isn't it abstract? What are these people sitting here watching?

Everyone needs a fantasy.

I want to be a machine.

I've never made the separation between, say, the museum and the hardware store. I mean, I enjoy both of them, and I want to combine the two.