Best 272 quotes of Andy Warhol on MyQuotes

Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it’s not good any more.

After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex.

After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex. Of course, for some people it isn't work because they need the exercise and they've got the energy for the sex and the sex gives them even more energy. Some people get energy from sex and some people lose energy from sex. I have found that it's too much work. But if you have the time for it, and if you need that exercise-then you should do it.

After Wakefield Poole's films, mine are unnecessary and a bit naive, don't you think?

...after you stop wanting things is when having them won't make you go crazy. After you stop wanting them is when you can handle having them. Or before. But never during. If you get things when you really want them, you go crazy. Everything becomes distorted when something you really want is sitting in your lap.

All photography is Pop, and all photographers are crazy... they feel guilty since they don't have to do very much - just push a button.

Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to be, and the way some women still actually want to be. Drags are ambulatory archives of ideal moviestar womanhood. They perform a documentary service, usually consecrating their lives to keeping the glittering alternative alive and available for (not-too-close) inspection.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

An artist is someone 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.

And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.

Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody. Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about? Andy Warhol: Yes, it's liking things.

A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.

Art is what you can get away with.

At the times in my life when I was feeling the most gregarious and looking for bosom friendships, I couldn't find any takers, so that exactly when I was alone was when I felt the most like not being alone... I became a loner in my own mind... I decided I'd rather be alone.

Bad taste makes the day go by faster.

Beauty really has to do with the way a person carries it off

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Believe me... I've made a career out of being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. That's one thing... I really do know about.

Business Art is the step that comes after Art.

Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.

But I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party

Coffee never used to keep me up at night, now it does.

Day after day I look in the mirror and I still see something

Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.

Don't think about making art.

Don't think about making art, just get it done.

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

During the '60s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered. I think that once you see emotions from a certain angle you can never think of them as real again. That's what more or less has happened to me. I don't really know if I was ever capable of love, but after the '60s I never thought in terms of 'love' again.

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

Edward Smith: What do you think is the characteristic of a really nice person? Some people you obviously do like more than others. Andy Warhol: Ummm, well, if they talk a lot. ES: What, and don't make you talk? AW: Yeah, yes, that's a really nice person.

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.

Even beauties can be unattractive. If you catch a beauty in the wrong light at the right time, forget it. I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. I believe in plastic surgery.

Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, "I knew he loved me when de didn't come in my mouth.

Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see.

Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see. So the fantasy corners of America seem so atmospheric because you 've pieced them together from scenes in movies and music and lines from books.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Everything is beautiful. Pop is everything.

Everything is more glamorous when you do it in bed anyway.

Exposure and attention make a work famous - the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.

Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

Free countries are great, because you can actually sit in somebody else's space for a while and pretend you're a part of it. You can sit in the Plaza Hotel and you don't even have to live there. You can just sit and watch the people go by.

How can you say one style is better than another? You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week, or a Pop artist, or a realist, without feeling you've given up something.. I think that would be so great, to be able to change styles. And I think that's what's is going to happen, that's going to be the whole new scene.