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)
I'm not a very good writer. I'm a very good typist.
I think that if you're going to be an artist, you have to be a little bit of a chameleon.
I'm not a very good dancer. I'm a very good stander.
I'm not a very good singer. I'm a very good lip-syncer.
I'm not a very good cook. I'm a very good eater.
I think that if you're going to be an artist, you have to be a little bit of a voyeur.
I'm not a very good driver. I'm a very good passenger.
I think that if you're going to be an artist, you have to be a little bit of a trickster.
I'm not a very good swimmer. I'm a very good floater.
I think that if you're going to be an artist, you have to be a little bit of a charlatan.
I think having a good time is a good thing to do.
The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or if you don't mind a lot of people starving all the time, which is unfortunate.
I always thought I was a very good person. I always thought I was a very nice person. I always thought I was a very kind person.
I don't think art should be a mystery. I think it should be something that everybody can understand.
I'm a very social person. I like to be around people.
I just do art because I'm good at it.
I don't want to be a great artist. I want to be a famous artist.
I think that if you're going to be an artist, you have to be a little bit of a politician.
I think that if you're going to be an artist, you have to be a little bit of a businessman.
I think that if you're going to be an artist, you have to be a little bit of a scientist.
Contemporaries of Andy Warhol
Other Visual Artss born within 50 years of Andy Warhol (1928–1987).