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 always feel that I have a right to do anything that I want to do, of course, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone.
I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew every place was too boring to be really interesting.
Why do people think artists are special? Art has always been the least interesting thing on the list of interesting things to do.
I like to work when I'm not working. I like to work when I'm not working.
The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting.
I never wanted to be a painter. I wanted to be a commercial artist.
Pop art is about liking things.
I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same lunch – every day at 12:30.
I think everybody should be nice to everybody.
Making money is art, and working is art and good business is the best art.
I just happen to like shopping a lot.
I love to buy things. But I don't like to pay for them.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
I do the same thing every day. I get up at 7, I have breakfast, I go to work.
Art is the same as a head of lettuce.
I want to be a machine.
Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.
I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts.
Contemporaries of Andy Warhol
Other Visual Artss born within 50 years of Andy Warhol (1928–1987).