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 think that if you're going to be an artist, you have to be a little bit of a spiritual person.
I think that if you're going to be an artist, you have to be a little bit of a psychologist.
I think that if you're going to be an artist, you have to be a little bit of a sociologist.
I think that if you're going to be an artist, you have to be a little bit of a historian.
I think that if you're going to be an artist, you have to be a little bit of a journalist.
I think that if you're going to be an artist, you have to be a little bit of a comedian.
I think that if you're going to be an artist, you have to be a little bit of a tragedian.
I think that if you're going to be an artist, you have to be a little bit of a romantic.
I think that if you're going to be an artist, you have to be a little bit of a realist.
I think that if you're going to be an artist, you have to be a little bit of an idealist.
I think that if you're going to be an artist, you have to be a little bit of a cynic.
I think that if you're going to be an artist, you have to be a little bit of a conformist.
I think that if you're going to be an artist, you have to be a little bit of a sinner.
I've decided that I don't want to be a painter anymore; I want to be a machine.
The Pop artists did something to the world. They took the outside and put it on the inside, or took the inside and put it on the outside.
I think having a good time is the best way to get rid of your problems.
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
I never understood why when you go to a restaurant and order a steak, they bring you a lot of other things, but you don't get to eat them.
Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
I always thought I was a good person. I always thought I was a good person, but I never thought I was a good artist.
Contemporaries of Andy Warhol
Other Visual Artss born within 50 years of Andy Warhol (1928–1987).