Quotes by Andy Warhol

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We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

Andy Warhol

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

Andy Warhol

Land really is the best art.

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

Andy Warhol

Art is what you can get away with.

Andy Warhol

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

Andy Warhol

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

Andy Warhol

I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.

Andy Warhol

Art? That's a man's name.

Andy Warhol

I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.

Andy Warhol

No les interesa la pintura. Catherine Guinness [véase Introducción] no se puso pesada hasta el último día, cuando empezó con esa cosa tan fastidiosa que hacen los ingleses de preguntar y preguntar: «¿Qué es exactamente el pop art?». Era como...

Andy Warhol

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

Andy Warhol

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 p...

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

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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...

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Everybody must have a fantasy.

Andy Warhol

Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it.

Andy Warhol

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...

Andy Warhol

Author Bio

  • NameAndy Warhol
  • DescriptionAmerican artist
  • AliasesAndrew Warhola
  • BornAugust 6, 1928
  • DiedFebruary 22, 1987
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Painter; Photographer; Film Producer; Sculptor; Visual Artist; Cinematographer; Screenwriter; Autobiographer
  • WorksPortrait Of Charles Ireland; Campbell's Soup Cans