Best 12 quotes in «warhol quotes» category

as if l was pitch black and everyone else, pastel

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

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I've withdrawn many times.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.

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.

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

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

Art is what you get away with

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.

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