Best 12 quotes in «warhol quotes» category

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

I've withdrawn many times.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.

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

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

as if l was pitch black and everyone else, pastel

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.

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.

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…

I look for ambiguity because life is ambiguous!

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

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