Andy Warhol Quotes

Andy Warhol was an American artist, filmmaker, and leading figure in the pop art movement. He is known for his iconic artworks featuring celebrities, consumer products, and everyday objects. Warhol's work explored themes of celebrity culture, consumerism, and the intersection of art and popular culture. His innovative approach to art and his status as a cultural icon have made him one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.

In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minu... -Andy Warhol

In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

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The quote, often attributed to artist Andy Warhol, implies that fame will become increasingly accessible and transient, with more individuals experiencing short-lived periods of recognition.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love.

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

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.

When I got my first television set, I stopped cari... -Andy Warhol

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

Sociological critics are waste makers.

I want to die with my blue jeans on.

I've been invited to the White House about five times. I think the greatest thing would be if they actually invited everybody to the White House every night... they'd just take about 500 people a night. Everybody would just love this country because it's so thrilling to go there. It really is.

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.

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.

I used to think that everything was just being fun... -Andy Warhol

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus a... -Andy Warhol

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

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The person humorously states their preference for photographs that are clear and properly focused, especially when they feature a well-known individual.

I always hear myself saying, 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about.

People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal.

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.

I never think that people die. They just go to dep... -Andy Warhol

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too.

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.

Art is what you can get away with.

I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home an... -Andy Warhol

I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.

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This quote humorously suggests that the speaker had various opportunities for social engagements or dates, but instead, they chose to stay at home and engage in a personal grooming activity—dyeing their eyebrows. It reflects the speaker's preference for solitude or personal time at home over external social activities.

I am a deeply superficial person.

Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.

I love Los Angeles, and I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

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

The most exciting attractions are between two oppo... -Andy Warhol

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.

When you think about it, department stores are kin... -Andy Warhol

When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.

Andy Warhol Quotes

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