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Andy Warhol Quotes

Total quotes: 38
“As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I’ve found that to be absolutely axiomatic.”
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Tagged: Words of Wisdom, Loneliness
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Tagged: Change, Life, Creating Change, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“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.”
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Tagged: Work, alive, Effort
“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, Andy Warhol's Exposures
Tagged: Photography, Famous, Paparazzi, Art Making
“I’ve never met a person I couldn’t call a beauty.”
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Tagged: People, beauty
“Art is what you can get away with.”
— Andy Warhol, via Amazon
Tagged: Art, getting away, Escape, break free, Life
“Funny people are the only people I ever get really interested in, because as soon as somebody isn’t funny, they bore me.”
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Tagged: Love and Relationships
“The difference is that airline stewardessing is a New World job that never had to contend with any class stigmas left over from the Old World peasant-aristocracy syndrome.”
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Tagged: Social Stigma
“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, Warhol: The Biography
Tagged: Life, Learning, Living, purpose, purpose in life, Awareness
“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.”
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Tagged: beauty
“Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Tagged: Art, Money, Business
“When you’ve got gray hair, every move you make seems “young” and “spry,” instead of just being normally active.”
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Tagged: Grey Hair, Getting Old
“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.”
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Tagged: Life
“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.”
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Tagged: Art, Creation, Creativity
“Scripts bore me. It's much more exciting not to know what's going to happen.”
— Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol: A Retrospective
Tagged: ESTP, ESFP, The future, Prediction, Unpredictability
“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, No Title
Tagged: Love, Sex, Lust, Passion, Falling In Love, Extroverted INtuition, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“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, Andy Warhol In His Own Words
Tagged: Change, People, Human Nature, Changing Someone
“I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.’”
— Andy Warhol, Art History Archive
“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, So what?
Tagged: Philosophy, My aesthetic, Radical Apathy
“I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”
— Andy Warhol, About
Tagged: Art, Meaning, Significance, Over Analyzing
“Good business is the best art.”
— Andy Warhol, Broken Social Scene- Art in America
Tagged: Art, Art and Commerce, Commercialization
“Food is my great extravagance.”
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Tagged: Foodie, eating out
“Makeup is so well-advertised you can’t ignore it completely.”
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Tagged: Advertising, beauty, Makeup, Culture and Society
“When people used to learn about sex at fifteen and die at thirty-five, they obviously were going to have fewer problems than people today who learn about sex at eight or so, I guess, and live to be eighty. That’s a long time to play around with the same concept. The same boring concept.”
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Tagged: problems in life, Death and Life, Sex
“When I did my self-portrait, I left all the pimples out because you always should. Pimples are a temporary condition and they don’t have anything to do with what you really look like. Always omit the blemishes—they’re not part of the good picture you want.”
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Tagged: beauty, pimples
“Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it.”
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Tagged: Love, Fantasy, Desire
“I think everybody should like everybody. ”
— Andy Warhol, Interview with Gene Swenson, Art News (1963)
Tagged: Love, Friendship, Relationships, People
“I am a deeply superficial person.”
— Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol and the Deep Surface
Tagged: Self-Concept, Superficiality
“After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex.”
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Tagged: Life, Sex
“The symptom of love is when some of the chemicals inside you go bad.”
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Falling In Love
“It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.”
— Andy Warhol, POPism: The Warhol Sixties
Tagged: Perception, Self-Perception, Identity
“The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting. ”
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Tagged: Desire, Lust, Waiting, Waiting For Something, Waiting For Someone, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.”
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Tagged: Love, Love Affair, romance, Relationships
“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes.”
— Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol Stockholm Catalogue
Tagged: Fame, The future, Internet Fame
“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, America, 1985
Tagged: FOMO, Going Out, parties
“Kiss me with your eyes.”
— Andy Warhol, A quote by Andy Warhol
Tagged: kiss, Eyes
“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. I don't even taste any of the other pieces, I just want to finish and throw the box away and not have to have it on my mind any more. I would rather either have it now or know I'll never have it so I don't have to think about it.”
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Tagged: ENFP, ENTP, The future, Anticipation
“If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not. 

I guess it's for your own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is where having them won't make you go crazy.”
— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
Tagged: Wanting, Desire, Lust, Getting What You Want, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
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