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 crazy.
I've always been a commercial artist.
I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
It's not what you do, but how you do it.
I just do art because I think it's fun.
I think an artist is anybody who does something well.
I like boring things.
I really don't have any secrets.
I'm not trying to be a pop artist. I'm just trying to make art.
I'm a very shy person.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
I suppose I never find anyone attractive. I have no interest.
Fantasy love is much better than real love. It's cleaner and less frustrating.
I'd love to be a singer, but I'm too fat.
The most exciting thing is not doing it. If I didn't like it, I'd be doing something else.
Success is a job in New York.
I think an interview is like a wild luxurious moment in one's otherwise boring life.
People need to have a good time.
Contemporaries of Andy Warhol
Other Visual Artss born within 50 years of Andy Warhol (1928–1987).