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 love New York. I love the energy.
I think it's very important to be commercial. I think it's very important to be successful.
I'm not sure what I'm doing, but I'm doing it.
I'm not interested in art that's not commercial.
I like to be surrounded by beautiful things.
I think that if you want to be successful, you have to be a little bit ruthless.
I'm just trying to make a living.
I think that if you're going to do something, you should do it all the way.
I'm not a very good writer. I'm a very good talker.
I think that if you're going to be famous, you should enjoy it.
I'm just trying to make things that people will like.
I think that if you're going to be an artist, you have to be a little bit of a showman.
I think that if you're going to be an artist, you have to be a little bit of a rebel.
I'm just trying to make a statement.
I think that if you're going to be an artist, you have to be a little bit of a provocateur.
I'm just trying to make things that are beautiful.
I think that if you're going to be an artist, you have to be a little bit of a visionary.
I'm just trying to make things that are interesting.
I think that if you're going to be an artist, you have to be a little bit of a philosopher.
I'm just trying to make things that are meaningful.
Contemporaries of Andy Warhol
Other Visual Artss born within 50 years of Andy Warhol (1928–1987).