80 Best Andy Warhol Quotes That Really Pop

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Come with us on a journey exploring these brilliant and thought-provoking famous quotes by Andy Warhol, the 90's American pop artist. In his long career involving commercial art, Andy Warhol has established himself as a household name.

His art not only showcased soda bottles, hamburgers, and vacuums but also many famous celebrities like Marilyn Monroe, with the purpose of showing that they are real people. In 2008, his famous painting called 'Eight Elvises' was resold for $100 million and became one of the most valuable works of art in history.

In '68, an actress named Valerie Solanas entered Andy Warhol's office carrying two guns with the intention to shoot him. She accused Warhol of refusing to produce her play and later losing the script. She found Warhol in The Factory and shot him three times, wounding Andy with the last shot.

But that didn't the great man and he has been attributed to some great quotes over the years. Andy Warhol quotes have been referred to again and again. There are many people all over the world who live and breathe Warhol quotes.

Let's check out these 'pop'ing Andy Warhol quotes and sayings, pop art captions and pop art quotes and know of the philosophy of Andy Warhol quotes. We have them all: Andy Warhol quotes about art, pop art sayings , Andy Warhol love quotes, and so on. So let's sit back and let this 'pop'ping man pop up our day like he did with art. We sure hope that you will love these Andy Warhol quotes.

If you are looking for more such quotes about pop art, check out our list of [Picasso quotes] and [Art quotes for kids].
 

People should fall in love with these Andy Warhol quotes. Here's a list of some of the great Andy Warhol quotes on the arts.

1. "I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do."

- Andy Warhol.

2. "The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will."

- Andy Warhol.

3. "A picture means I know where I was every minute. That’s why I take pictures. It’s a visual diary."

- Andy Warhol.

4. "The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do."

- Andy Warhol.

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

- Andy Warhol.

6. "An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have."

- Andy Warhol.

7. "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.

8. "Don’t think about making art, just get it done."

- Andy Warhol.

9. "Art is what you can get away with."

- Andy Warhol.

10. "They always say new art is bad for a while, that’s the risk – that’s the pain you have to have for fame."

- Andy Warhol.

11. "So a ‘pop art’ should be flattering, in the sense that it’s a reflection of a positive part of the person’s personality."

- Andy Warhol.

12. "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.

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

- Andy Warhol.

14. "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."

- Andy Warhol.

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

- Andy Warhol.

16. "Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?"

- Andy Warhol.

17. "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.

18. "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."

- Andy Warhol.

19. "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.

Andy Warhol quotes on love are beautiful. So let us scroll down for a list of some Andy Warhol quotes on love.

20. "People should fall in love with their eyes closed."

- Andy Warhol.

21. "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.

22." I wonder if it’s possible to have a love affair that lasts forever."

- Andy Warhol.

23. "As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it."

- Andy Warhol.

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

- Andy Warhol.

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

- Andy Warhol.

26. "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."

- Andy Warhol.

27. "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible."

- Andy Warhol.

Here's a list of Andy Warhol quotes of a more philosophical nature. These quotes make up the most quintessential part of this collection of Andy Warhol quotes.

28. "When people are ready to, they change."

- Andy Warhol.

29. "Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches."

- Andy Warhol.

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

- Andy Warhol.

31. "Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what."

- Andy Warhol.

32. "You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you."

- Andy Warhol.

33. "And your own life while it’s happening to you never has any atmosphere until it’s a memory."

- Andy Warhol.

34. "Someday everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that seems to be what is happening."

- Andy Warhol.

35. "I’m not afraid to die; I just don’t want to be there when it happens."

- Andy Warhol.

36. "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.

37. "In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes."

- Andy Warhol.

38. "Beauty is a sign of intelligence."

- Andy Warhol.

39. "You have to do stuff that average people don’t understand because those are the only good things."

- Andy Warhol.

40. "Everybody must have a fantasy."

- Andy Warhol.

42. "I never fall apart, because I never fall together."

- Andy Warhol.

43. "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."

- Andy Warhol.

44. "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."

- Andy Warhol.

45. "I like to be the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place."

- Andy Warhol.

46. "But I’m afraid if you look at a thing long enough; it loses all of its meaning."

- Andy Warhol.

47. "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.

48. "It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are."

- Andy Warhol.

49. "I think everybody should be nice to everybody."

- Andy Warhol.

50. "I thought that young people had more problems than old people..."

- Andy Warhol.

51. "You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you."

- Andy Warhol.

52. "I don’t believe in it, because you’re not around to know that it’s happened. I can’t say anything about it because I’m not prepared for it."

- Andy Warhol.

53. "I always think about the people who build buildings and then they’re not around anymore."

- Andy Warhol.

54. "If I weren’t famous, I wouldn’t have been shot for being Andy Warhol."

- Andy Warhol.

55. "When a person is the beauty of their day, and their looks are really in style, and then the times change and tastes change, and ten years go by, and if they keep exactly their same look and don’t change anything and if they take care of themselves, they’ll still be a beauty."

- Andy Warhol.

56. "I have no memory. Every day is new because I don’t remember the day before. Every minute is like the first minute of my life."

- Andy Warhol.

57. "I like money on the wall."

- Andy Warhol.

58. "Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what."

- Andy Warhol.

59. "The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting."

- Andy Warhol.

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

- Andy Warhol.

61. "It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."

- Andy Warhol.

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

- Andy Warhol.

63. "You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things."

- Andy Warhol.

64." It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are."

- Andy Warhol.

65. "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.

66. "I like boring things."

- Andy Warhol.

67. "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. "

- Andy Warhol.

68. "I am a deeply superficial person."

- Andy Warhol.

69. "I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with."

- Andy Warhol.

70. "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."

- Andy Warhol.

71. "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.

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

- Andy Warhol.

73. "Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around."

- Andy Warhol.

74. "It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented."

- Andy Warhol.

75. "I think everybody should like everybody."

- Andy Warhol.

76. "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.

77. "I've decided something: commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks."

- Andy Warhol.

78. "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.

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

- Andy Warhol.

80. "If everybody's not a beauty, then nobody is."

- Andy Warhol.

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