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 don't think I'm a critic. I just think I'm a person who looks.
I think it's so great that you can be a popular artist and still be an artist.
I don't think I'm a teacher. I just think I'm a person who learns.
I think it's so great that you can be an influential artist and still be an artist.
I don't think I'm a leader. I just think I'm a person who follows.
I think it's so great that you can be an original artist and still be an artist.
I don't think I'm a visionary. I just think I'm a person who sees.
I think it's so great that you can be a groundbreaking artist and still be an artist.
I don't think I'm a revolutionary. I just think I'm a person who changes.
I think it's so great that you can be an iconic artist and still be an artist.
I don't think I'm a prophet. I just think I'm a person who predicts.
I think it's so great that you can be a legendary artist and still be an artist.
I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.
The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.
A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good.
Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
I'd prefer to remain a mystery. I never like to give my background and, anyway, I make it all up different every time I'm asked.
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
I'm not afraid to die because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car and into another.
Contemporaries of Andy Warhol
Other Visual Artss born within 50 years of Andy Warhol (1928–1987).