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 of a magician.
I'm just trying to make things that are fun.
I think that if you're going to be an artist, you have to be a little bit of a dreamer.
I'm just trying to make things that are real.
I think that if you're going to be an artist, you have to be a little bit of a storyteller.
I'm just trying to make things that are true.
I think that if you're going to be an artist, you have to be a little bit of a poet.
I'm just trying to make things that are good.
I think that if you're going to be an artist, you have to be a little bit of a saint.
I'm just trying to make things that are perfect.
I think that if you're going to be an artist, you have to be a little bit of a god.
I've never met a person I couldn't call a beauty.
I think having an exhibition is like having a baby.
I always like to work on a lot of things at once. That way, if one thing falls through, I've got something else to keep me busy.
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he — for some reason — thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
The world always looks brighter from behind a smile.
I'm a very visual person.
I'm not trying to be a pop artist. I'm just a person who makes art.
I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.
It's not what you are that counts, it's what they think you are.
Contemporaries of Andy Warhol
Other Visual Artss born within 50 years of Andy Warhol (1928–1987).