Best 272 quotes of Andy Warhol on MyQuotes

James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time.

Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world.

Kiss me with your eyes.

Land really is the best art.

Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.

Looking younger and being younger is the adolescence idea.

Look poor, think rich.

Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Maybe the reason my memory is so bad is that I always do at least two things at once. It's easier to forget something you only half-did or quarter did.

Money has a certain kind of amnesty.

My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat or in film's case 'run on' manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.

My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. People are only glamorous if you don't see them. Like the movies used to make people years ago. There is something about people on screen that makes them so special; when you see them in person, they are so different and the whole illusion is gone.

My image is a statement of the symbols of the harsh, impersonal products and brash materialistic objects on which America is built today. It is a projection of everything that can be bought and sold, and practical but impermanent symbols that sustain us.

My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.' As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong. And the more you decide about, the more wrong it gets.

New things are always better than old things.

New York restaurants are about selling atmospheres.

Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil - of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them and tape-record them. But I didn't think of myself as evil - just realistic.

Nutty people are always writing me. I always think I must be on some nutty mailing list.

Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.

One person in the 60s fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love

Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory: instead of fifteen minutes of fame, he will have fifteen centuries.

People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.

People in uniform always look so great.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there.

People should fall in love with their eyes closed.

People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like you're watching television -- you don't feel anything.

Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button.

Pop art is about liking things.

Pop art is a way of liking things.

Pop art is for everyone.

Publicity is like eating peanuts. Once you start you can’t stop.

Reruns are my favorite things on TV.

Rodeo Drive is a giant butterscotch sundae.

Security breeds stagnation.

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don't know whether I'm alive or whether I died. I wasn't afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn't feel fear. But I am afraid. I don't understand why.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

Sociological critics are waste makers.

So many people have so many problems. When you think that health is wealth, you're so grateful just to be normal, more or less. Aren't you?

So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.

Some people spend their entire lives thinking about one particular famous person. They pick one person who's famous, and they dwell on him or her. They devote almost their entire consciousness to thinking about this person they've never even met, or maybe met once. If you ask any famous person about the kind of mail they get, you'll find that almost every one of them has at least one person who's obsessed with them and writes constantly. It feels so strange to think that someone is spending their whole time thinking about you.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what." "My mother didn't love me." So what. "My husband won't ball me. So what. "I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what. I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.

Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it's different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are white, and vice-versa.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

So today if you see a person who looks like your teenage fantasy walking down the street, it's probably not your fantasy, but someone who had the same fantasy as you and decided instead of getting it or being it, to look like it, and so he went to the store and bought the look that you both like. So forget it. Just think about all the James Deans and what it means.