Andy Warhol
Leading figure of Pop Art movement
Most quoted
"I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, and everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. 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'."
— from The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again)
"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."
— from From 'The Philosophy of Andy Warhol', 1975
"I like money on the wall. Say you were going to buy a painting. You go to a gallery and you put out $20,000 and you get a painting. That's what I like to do. I like to put money on the wall."
— from The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again), 1975
All quotes by Andy Warhol (307)
In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.
I've decided that I don't want to be a painter anymore. I want to be a machine.
Art is what you can get away with.
I am a deeply superficial person.
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.
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.
I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.
The world is so much more interesting than any of my pictures.
I always like to work on things that are ready to be thrown out.
You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.
I think having an exhibition is like having a baby. You're pregnant for a long time, and then you give birth, and then you're not pregnant anymore.
I'm not afraid to die; I just don't want to be there when it happens.
I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're so beautiful. Everything's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.
If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.
I think everybody should like everybody.
The more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.
Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.
I'm a very social person, but I'm also very private.
I'd prefer to remain a mystery. I'm just a person who likes to make things.
I never read. I just look at pictures.
Contemporaries of Andy Warhol
Other Visual Artss born within 50 years of Andy Warhol (1928–1987).