Andy Warhol quotes - page 2

Andy Warhol was an American artist, film director, and leading figure in the Pop Art movement. His unique style and fascination with mass culture transformed the art world. He remains an enduring icon of modern art and popular culture. Here are 186 of his quotes:

I like boring things. (Andy Warhol)

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

Andy Warhol

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

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

Andy Warhol

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work," because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Andy Warhol

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

Andy Warhol

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

Andy Warhol

I think everybody should like everybody.

Andy Warhol

Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good night.

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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.

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The President has so much good publicity potential that hasn't been exploited. He should just sit down one day and make a list of all the things that people are embarrassed to do that they shouldn't be embarrassed to do, and then do them all on television. (Andy Warhol)

I never fall apart, because I never fall together.

Andy Warhol

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.

Andy Warhol

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

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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.

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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.

Andy Warhol

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

Andy Warhol

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

Andy Warhol

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.

Andy Warhol

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

Andy Warhol

In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all the lighter things in life, which are the most important things, are put down. (Andy Warhol)

The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.

Andy Warhol

I know a girl who just looks at her face in the medicine cabinet mirror and never looks below her shoulders, and she's four or five hundred pounds but she doesn't see all that, she just sees a beautiful face and therefore she thinks she's a beauty. And therefore, I think she's a beauty, too, because I usually accept people on the basis of their self-images, because their self-images have more to do with the way they think than their objective-images do.

Andy Warhol

I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it. An artist is somebody 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.

Andy Warhol

Free countries are great, because you can actually sit in somebody else's space for a while and pretend you're a part of it. You can sit in the Plaza Hotel and you don't even have to live there. You can just sit and watch the people go by.

Andy Warhol

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Andy Warhol

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Occupation: American Artist
Born: August 6, 1928
Died: February 22, 1987
Quotes count: 186
Wikipedia: Andy Warhol

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