Quotes by Andy Warhol

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

Andy Warhol

My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.

Andy Warhol

Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a com...

Andy Warhol

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.

Andy Warhol

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.

Andy Warhol

I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike.

Andy Warhol

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

Andy Warhol

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

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

Andy Warhol

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-ordinary.

Andy Warhol

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.

Andy Warhol

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.'

Andy Warhol

I think Chris Burden is terrific. I really do.

Andy Warhol

I want to be a machine.

Andy Warhol

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

Andy Warhol

Sociological critics are waste makers.

Andy Warhol

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.

Andy Warhol

The clothes of Courreges are so nice.

Andy Warhol

Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can’t see…So the fantasy corners of America…you’ve pieced them together from scenes in movies and music and lines from books...

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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.

Andy Warhol

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.

Andy Warhol

Author Bio

  • NameAndy Warhol
  • DescriptionAmerican artist
  • AliasesAndrew Warhola
  • BornAugust 6, 1928
  • DiedFebruary 22, 1987
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Painter; Photographer; Film Producer; Sculptor; Visual Artist; Cinematographer; Screenwriter; Autobiographer
  • WorksPortrait Of Charles Ireland; Campbell's Soup Cans