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)
When I look at my work, I don't see the money I make from it.
I'm bored with all this. I like to do one thing at a time.
The world isn't interested in the little guy.
I like piss, I like vomit, I like blood, I like shit.
Every time I write 'perfection' next to an advertisement, it means I want to buy it.
I think kids should have the chance to be gay until they're 21.
I always thought I'd like my own obituary to be: 'This man made better cat food than he did comics.'
People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.
I never met a man I didn't like.
The more you turn the lights down, the more you see how beautiful women are.
I hate Sunday.
Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.
After a certain age, you stop looking at women. You look at them till you're 25, then you look at them till you're 50, then you look at them till you're 75.
I wish I didn't have to write this. But I have to.
The Factory was not a place, it was a state of mind.
I was a commercial artist. I didn't want to do fine art.
Everything is beautiful. Pop is everything.
My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.
I don't really know why it is that all of us are supposed to believe ourselves to be so special.
I never understood why when you go to a restaurant and order a steak, they bring you 10 different vegetables and potatoes. I want to eat the steak.
Contemporaries of Andy Warhol
Other Visual Artss born within 50 years of Andy Warhol (1928–1987).