Andy Warhol was a key figure in the visual art movement, film director, and producer. He was born on August 6, 1928, as Andrew Warhola Jr., and passed away on February 22, 1987. His works, which use a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture, explore the connection between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that peaked in the 1960s.
The silkscreen paintings Campbell’s Soup Cans and Marilyn Diptych from 1962, the experimental film Empire from 1964 and Chelsea Girls from 1966, and the multimedia events known as the Exploding Plastic Inevitable from 1966 to 1967 are some of his best-known creations.
61 Andy Warhol Quotes
- “It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”
2. “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
3. “Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”
4. “The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting”
5. “Beauty is a sign of intelligence.”
6. “The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.”
7. “Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years.”
8. “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.”
9. “Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.”
10. “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.”
11. “I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”
12. “As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.”
13. “You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.”
14. “You have to do stuff that average people don’t understand because those are the only good things.”
Andy Warhol Quotes About Love
15. “People should fall in love with their eyes closed.”
16. “And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love.”
17. “People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don’t look and it’s magic”
18. “The symptom of love is when some of the chemicals inside you go bad. So there must be something in love because your chemicals do tell you something.”
19. “I never fall apart, because I never fall together.”
20. “I wonder if it’s possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.”
21. “Women love me for the man I’m not.”
22. “Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.”
23. “Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, “I knew he loved me when he didn’t come in my mouth.”
24. “People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don’t look.”
25. “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. ”
26. “After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex.”
Andy Warhol Quotes About Art
27. “Making money is art. And working is art. And good business is the best art.”
28. “I don’t want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.”
29. “Everything will be art and nothing will be art, because everything, as I believe, already is.”
30. “I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.”
31. “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.”
32. “They always say new art is bad for a while, that’s the risk – that’s the pain you have to have for fame.”
33. “An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.”
34. “Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art…but making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”
35. “Every song has a memory; every song has the ability to make or break your heart, shut down the heart, and open the eyes.”
Andy Warhol Quotes About Life
36. “People sometimes say the way things happen to you in the movies in unreal, but it’s the way things happen to you in real life that’s unreal. “
37. “You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.”
38. “I think everybody should be nice to everybody.”
39. “It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.”
40. “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.”
41. “Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don’t have it.”
42. “The more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.”
43. “I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die”
44. “Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone’s got to take care of all your details.”
45. “The best thing about a photograph is that it never changes. Even if the people in it do.”
46. “People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.”
47. “The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”
Famous Andy Warhol Quotes
48. “Everyone winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.”
49. “Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they’ll just have to learn how to be babies longer.”
50. “I always think about the people who build buildings and then they’re not around anymore.”
51. “Everything is more glamorous when you do it in bed anyway.”
52. “I’m really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts”
53. “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.”
54. “I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.”
55. “I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”
56. “Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what.”
57. “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.”
Thought-Provoking Andy Warhol Quotes
58. “People’s fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn’t have fantasies you wouldn’t have problems because you’d just take whatever was there.”
56. “I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.”
57. “Just because people throw it out and don’t have any use for it, doesn’t mean it’s garbage.”
58. “People do tend to avoid new realities; they’d rather just add details to the old ones. It’s as simple as that.”
59. “I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up.”
60. “Employees make the best dates. You don’t have to pick them up and they’re always tax-deductible.”
61. “And your own life while it’s happening to you never has any atmosphere until it’s a memory.”
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