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.

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.

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

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

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.

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.

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

People should fall in love with their eyes closed.

Perception precedes reality.

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

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it

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.

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.

People in uniform always look so great.

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

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.

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

Everybody must have a fantasy.

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

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.

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

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

I am a deeply superficial person.

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.

I think everybody should like everybody.

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.

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