Best 12 quotes in «warhol quotes» category

I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol.

Warhol was a prime example of a schizoid person. Maybe he had Asperger's, or maybe he was just an amorous human being on earth.

That is what [Andy] Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting.

as if l was pitch black and everyone else, pastel

When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, 'God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!'

Art is what you get away with

I look for ambiguity because life is ambiguous!

If I ever have to cast an acting role, I want the wrong person for the part. I can never visualize the right person in a part. The right person for the right part would be too much. Besides, no person is every completely right for any part, because part in a role is never real, so if you can't get someone who's perfectly right, it's more satisfying to get someone who's perfectly wrong. Then you know you've really got something.

I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art.

I sound like Warhol but only because I'm tired.

The child-like, gum-chewing naïveté , the glamour rooted in despair, the self admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones…

After Andy Warhol died, it left a dark cloud over N.Y.C. nightlife.