Andy Warhol Quotes

Andy Warhol Quotes About Art

1. “I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.” – Andy Warhol
2. “Art is what you can get away with.” – Andy Warhol
3. “I believe in low art and I believe in high art. I don’t believe in only one kind of art.” – Andy Warhol
4. “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
5. “I’m not doing it for money... I’m doing it for kicks.” – Andy Warhol
6. “Art is a lie that tells the truth.” – Andy Warhol
7. “I’m trying to work without preconceived notions. I don’t want to be influenced by what came before me.” – Andy Warhol
8. “Good business is the best art.” – Andy Warhol
9. “I think everybody should like everybody.” – Andy Warhol

 

Inspirational Andy Warhol Quotes

1. “I am a deeply superficial person.” – Andy Warhol
2. “It takes a long time to become young.” – Andy Warhol
3. “I’m not afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” – Andy Warhol
4. “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” – Andy Warhol
5. “I want to be a machine, and feel no pain.” – Andy Warhol

 

Andy Warhol Quotes on Fame

1. “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” – Andy Warhol
2. “Fame is like a machine that you go into and it grinds you up.” – Andy Warhol
3. “I never met a person I couldn’t call a genius.” – Andy Warhol
4. “I don’t mind being born at the bottom of the heap. I just don’t want to stay there.” – Andy Warhol
5. “Fame is like a condom. It’s better when it’s not used.” – Andy Warhol
6. “I’m so sick of people saying that about me - that I’m only interested in 15 minutes of fame. It’s not true!” – Andy Warhol
7. “Fame is like a huge bonfire that you can see for miles and miles.” – Andy Warhol
8. “The idea is to be very near it so that people can feel the heat.” – Andy Warhol
9. “Fame is like a virginity; it’s not lost all at once, you lose it in little pieces over time.” – Andy Warhol
10. “I always thought I’d like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph and no name.” – Andy Warhol
11. “Famous people have no privacy.” – Andy Warhol

 

Andy Warhol Quotes About Life

1. “The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.” – Andy Warhol
2. “Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?” – Andy Warhol
3. “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.” – Andy Warhol
4. “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.” – Andy Warhol
5. “People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it’s the way things happen to you in life that’s unreal. The movies make emotions look strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it’s like you’re watching television - you don’t feel anything.” – Andy Warhol
6. “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.” – Andy Warhol
7. “And your own life while it’s happening to you never has any atmosphere until it’s a memory.” – Andy Warhol
8. “I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is.” – Andy Warhol
9. “Remember, they’ve never seen you before in their life.” – Andy Warhol
10. “People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.” – Andy Warhol

 

Andy Warhol Quotes on Prints

1. “I think that when you do something in print, it has a different feeling from when you do it on canvas.” – Andy Warhol
2. “Prints aren’t really art. They’re more like ideas.” – Andy Warhol
3. “I think that if you can’t appreciate the beauty in a brushstroke, then you’re never going to appreciate the beauty in anything.” – Andy Warhol
4. “When I do a print, I’m not trying to make a drawing or painting or anything else.” – Andy Warhol
5. “I’m not interested in whether a painting looks like something or not. I want it to look like a painting.” – Andy Warhol

 

Andy Warhol Quotes on Love

1. “Love is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you’re born with, it’s something that you grow into.” – Andy Warhol
2. “I have been warning people for years about falling in love. I tell them all: don’t do it! You’ll get hurt.” – Andy Warhol
3. “Love doesn’t make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Andy Warhol
4. “The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it’s much more exciting.” – Andy Warhol
5. “People should fall in love with their eyes closed.” – Andy Warhol
6. “There should be a course in the first grade on love.” – Andy Warhol
7. “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
8. “I wonder if it’s possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.” – Andy Warhol
9. “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.” – Andy Warhol
10. “Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad.” – Andy Warhol

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