110+ Andy Warhol Quotes On Art, Consumerism And Beauty

Andy Warhol was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertisement. Warhol's works span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Andy Warhol on art, consumerism, love.

Top 10 Andy Warhol Quotes

1. They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
2. The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.
3. 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.
4. You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.
5. I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die
6. 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.
7. Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.
8. 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.
9. In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.
10. Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

Andy Warhol Short Quotes

• You need to let little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.
• Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
• Kiss me with your eyes.
• I always notice flowers.
• I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.
• The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
• I think everybody should like everybody.
• Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
• Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good-night.
• I wake up every morning. I open my eyes and think: here we go again.

Andy Warhol Quotes About Art

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them. — Andy Warhol

The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second — comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators, Coke bottles. All the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried not to notice at all. — Andy Warhol

When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people. — Andy Warhol

People should fall in love with their eyes closed. — Andy Warhol

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting — Andy Warhol

When you stop wanting something, you get it. — Andy Warhol

Art is what you can get away with. — Andy Warhol

I’m really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts — Andy Warhol

I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do. — Andy Warhol

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

Andy Warhol Quotes About Love

Uptown is for people who have already done something. Downtown is where they’re doing something now. I live uptown but I love downtown. — Andy Warhol

Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love. — Andy Warhol

I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever. — Andy Warhol

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 — Andy Warhol

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. — Andy Warhol

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money. — Andy Warhol

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. — Andy Warhol

The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting. — Andy Warhol

I loved working when I worked at commercial art and they told you what to do and how to do it and all you had to do was correct it and they'd say yes or no. The hard thing is when you have to dream up the tasteless things to do on your own. — Andy Warhol

Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that. — Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol Quotes About Beauty

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own. — Andy Warhol

The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet. — Andy Warhol

I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own. — Andy Warhol

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. — Andy Warhol

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. — Andy Warhol

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

I like church. It's empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York. — Andy Warhol

There are beautiful sounds in rock. Very lazy, dreamlike noises. You can forget about the lyrics in most songs. Just dig the noise, and you've got your sound...We're musical primitives. — Andy Warhol

Everything is beautiful. Pop is everything. — Andy Warhol

I really don't care that much about "Beauties." What I really like are Talkers. To me, good talkers are beautiful because good talk is what I love. The word itself shows why I like Talkers better than Beauties, why I tape more than I film. It's not "talkies." Talkers are doing something. — Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol Quotes About Fame

The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. — Andy Warhol

You should always have a product that has nothing to do with who you are or what people think about you... so that you never start thinking that your product is you, or your fame or your aura. — Andy Warhol

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

Andy Warhol Quotes About His Art

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. — Andy Warhol

Land really is the best art. — Andy Warhol

You meet rich people and you hang around with them, and one night they've had a few drinks and they say 'I'll buy it!' Then they tell their friends, 'You must have this person's work, darling,' and that's all you need. That's all it takes. Get it? — Andy Warhol

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. — Andy Warhol

Pop art is about liking things. — Andy Warhol

I never read, I just look at pictures. — Andy Warhol

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. — Andy Warhol

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art — Andy Warhol

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting. — Andy Warhol

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

Andy Warhol Quotes About Pop

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. — Andy Warhol

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. — Andy Warhol

I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so American. — Andy Warhol

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

Pop art is a way of liking things. — Andy Warhol

Business Art is the step that comes after Art. — Andy Warhol

Pop art is for everyone. — Andy Warhol

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. — Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol Quotes About Colorful

(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains. — Andy Warhol

I think every painting should be the same size and the same color so they're all interchangeable and nobody thinks they have a better painting or a worse painting.... Besides even when the subject is different, people want the same painting. — Andy Warhol

You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes. — Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol Quotes About People

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what. — Andy Warhol

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

People in uniform always look so great. — Andy Warhol

I am a deeply superficial person. — Andy Warhol

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. — Andy Warhol

I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don't want to get too close; I don't like to touch things. — Andy Warhol

When you work with people who misunderstand you, instead of getting transmissions, you get transmutations, and that's much more interesting in the long run. — Andy Warhol

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

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. — Andy Warhol

You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people. — Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol Quotes About Famous

I think anybody can take a good picture. My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous. It's being in the right place at the wrong time. — Andy Warhol

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

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

Don't think about making art. — Andy Warhol

I love the English language just like I love all American things. But I confess that I don't feel confident using complex sentences or big words, hence my famous minimally expressive style - all the "gees" and laconic answers to interviewers. Most of all, I have developed listening as an art form. — Andy Warhol

In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. — Andy Warhol

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous." — Andy Warhol

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. — Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol Quotes About Watching

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. — Andy Warhol

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom. — Andy Warhol

I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie. — Andy Warhol

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. — Andy Warhol

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. — Andy Warhol

I think they should have movies in restaurants. I can't believe that so many people get together just to sit there. It's so abstract... isn't it abstract? What are these people sitting here watching? — Andy Warhol

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 so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television -- you don't feel anything. — Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol Quotes About Work

When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be a boss. A boss who could tell me what to do, because that makes everything easy when you're working. — Andy Warhol

I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can. — Andy Warhol

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

I was trying to think the other day about what you do now in America if you want to be successful. Before, you were dependable and wore a good suit. Looking around, I guess that today you have to do all the same things but not wear a good suit. I guess that's all it is. Think rich. Look poor. — Andy Warhol

I like to work when I'm not working - do something that may not be considered work, but to me it's work. Getting exercise by going to the grocery store. — Andy Warhol

I think it would be great to make a $2 million or $3 million art movie where nobody would really have to go to it. I thought that would be a good project to work on . . . do something really artistic. — Andy Warhol

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 — Andy Warhol

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of work, because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep. — Andy Warhol

I really like to work a lot. It makes time go by fast. — Andy Warhol

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

Andy Warhol Famous Quotes And Sayings

I like to be the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. But usually being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space is worth it, because something funny always happens. — Andy Warhol

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. — Andy Warhol

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. — Andy Warhol

I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is. — Andy Warhol

The girls in California were probably prettier in a standard sense than the New York girls--blonder and in better health, I guess; but I still preferred the way the girls in New York looked--stranger and more neurotic (a girl always looked more beautiful and fragile when she was about to have a nervous breakdown). — Andy Warhol

I like boring things. — Andy Warhol

The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it’s a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor. — Andy Warhol

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

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs. — Andy Warhol

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer. — Andy Warhol

I want to die with my blue jeans on. — Andy Warhol

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. — Andy Warhol

I think pot should be legal. I don’t smoke it, but I like the smell of it. — Andy Warhol

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

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time. — Andy Warhol

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

Rodeo Drive is a giant butterscotch sundae. — Andy Warhol

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it. — Andy Warhol

Security breeds stagnation. — Andy Warhol

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. — Andy Warhol

The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey. — Andy Warhol

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks. — Andy Warhol

The interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me to say and I’ll repeat them after him. I think that would be so great because I’m so empty I just can’t think of anything to say. — Andy Warhol

It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way. — Andy Warhol

Success is what sells. — Andy Warhol

Wasting money puts you in a real party mood. — Andy Warhol

I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece. — Andy Warhol

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

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. — Andy Warhol

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. — Andy Warhol

If I had gone ahead and died ten years ago, I'd probably be a cult figure today. — Andy Warhol

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

I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordinary. — Andy Warhol

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.' — Andy Warhol

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. — Andy Warhol

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger. — Andy Warhol

The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, 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 . . . — Andy Warhol

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

I'm seeking out a new way to live and if it's surfing, that's the way I'll do it. I'll be a surfer for the rest of my life. — Andy Warhol

Life Lessons by Andy Warhol

1. Andy Warhol taught us to embrace our uniqueness and be unapologetically ourselves. He showed us that creativity and innovation can come from the most unexpected places.
2. He also showed us that success is not always measured in terms of money and fame, but in terms of the impact we make on the world.
3. Lastly, Warhol taught us to never be afraid to take risks and to always stay true to our own vision and values.