Andy Warhol phrases, famous quotes and aphorisms of this American painter and director, a relevant figure in the pop art movement and an influential twentieth-century artist.
Quotes by Andy Warhol
- Some critics have said that I am nothing in person and this has not helped my sense of existence at all. Then I realized that existence itself is nothing and I felt better.
- I think anyone who knows how to do something well is an artist; cooking, for example.
- If people want to spend all their lives crying, tearing hair with tweezers, brushing, pricking, sticking, it's all right, also because at least they always have something to do.
- I hate Sundays. They are all closed except the florists and newsagents.
- The highest price you pay for love is that you always have someone on your feet, you can't stand alone, which is always better. The biggest drawback is of course the lack of space in the bed. Even a cat clutters you in the bedroom.
- The problem with the classicists is that when they look at a tree they don't really see anything else and therefore in the end they only draw a tree.
- Jewels do not make a person beautiful but make them feel more beautiful.
- It must be interesting to have a different sex, but I think it can be exciting to keep what you have.
- I fear that if you look at something long enough, it will lose all its meaning.
- I like the money on the wall. Say you buy a $ 200,000 painting. I think you should take that money, put it together and hang it on the wall. So if someone comes to see you, the first thing they see is money on the wall.
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- I don't know where the artificial ends and the real begins.
- All things are in the air, only those who make them count.
- Watching a fairytale wedding you can't help yourself wondering how it will go when the divorce occurs.
- I think in the sixties people forgot what emotions should be. And since then he has never remembered it.
- I believe that buying underwear is the most personal thing you can do, and you can say that you really know a person if you observe them while they buy them.
- I'd like a gravestone with no inscriptions whatsoever. No epitaph, not even the name. Indeed no, I would like it to be written above "fiction".
- I don't understand how women use makeup. They even cover their lips, and it's so heavy. Lipstick and eyeshadow and face powder and foundation. And the jewels. It's all so heavy.
- When I had my first TV, I stopped wanting close relationships with others.
- It is better to watch a movie than a tennis match because I can't stand someone who might lose.
- The most exciting attraction is exerted by two opposites that will never meet.
- Being born is a bit like being kidnapped. And then sold as slaves. People do nothing but work.
- I look terrible, and I don't mind dressing well or being attractive, because I don't want it to happen to please someone. I minimize my qualities and highlight my flaws. Yet there is the same someone I'm interested in. I treasure it and wonder: what will I have done wrong?
Aphorisms by Andy Warhol
- I can only be a good friend to people who are not romantically involved.
- In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.
- I had my first sexual experience at twenty-five and at twenty-six the last.
- The films will be the new novels. Nobody will read anymore.
- If you're pale, try to fix it with blusher. But if you have a huge nose you have to highlight it, and if you have a boil put plenty of cream on top of it to make it better known: “See? I use the cream for boils. " There is a fundamental difference.
- An imaginary love is much better than a real love. Not having sex is very exciting.
- I believe in living in one room. An empty room with only the bed inside, a shelf and a suitcase.
- One is company, two is crowd and three is a party.
- I'm sure that looking at myself in the mirror I wouldn't see anything. People always say I'm a mirror, and if a mirror looks in the mirror what can it find?
- Sex is the greatest nothing of all time.
- I have been invited everywhere except for mass. And I'm a Catholic.
- I have a social disease.I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start talking to my dogs. I was home for a week once and my dogs missed.
- Why did I stop painting? But I never stopped. I paint my nails and eyes every day.
- A photo means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It is a visual diary.
- It's not who you are that matters, it's what you think you are.
- People sometimes say that the way things happen in films is unreal, but in reality it is the things that happen to you in life that are unreal.
- We are all looking for someone who does not live with us, but who pays the rent.
- I never read, I only look at the figures.
- When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. I'm not an angel.
- Getting rich is not as fun as it once was.
- I never wanted to be a painter. I wanted to become a Tip Tap dancer.
- Why do I paint dollars? Is there anything else we like best?
Phrases by Andy Warhol
- Wearing the nose ring is fabulous.
- You can always notice that you are changing your habits by checking the bag of your vacuum cleaner.
- An artist is one who produces things that people don't need, but that he - for some reason - thinks it's a good idea to give them.
- People are more kissable when not made up. Marilyn's lips were not kissable, but they were very photographable.
- All scandals help advertising, because there is no better advertising than bad advertising.
- Wasted space is any space where there is art.
- Making money is art and working is art and being good at business is the most fascinating form of art.
- I have no memory. Every day is a new day because I don't remember the first one. Every minute is like it's the first of my life.
- The masses want to appear nonconformist, so this means that nonconformism must be produced for the masses.
- I'm really afraid of feeling happy because it never lasts.
- I would go to the inauguration of anything, even a toilet.
- I like to be the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place, because something funny always happens.
- I am a profoundly superficial person.
- The big stars are those who do something that you can see every second, even if it is an imperceptible movement of their eye.
- I never wanted to be a painter. I wanted to become a Tip Tap dancer.
- You always end up kissing the wrong person goodnight.
- I read that Picasso had made four thousand masterpieces in his life and I thought: "Jesus, I could do them in one day".
- I take my camera wherever I go. Having a new film to develop gives me a good reason to wake up in the morning.
- Sex is more exciting on the screen and on the paper than between the sheets.
- I had a lot of dates, but I decided to stay home to dye my eyebrows.
- A good reason to be famous is that when you read gossip in magazines, you know everyone you talk about. On each page there is someone you met. I love this kind of experience, and it's the only reason to be famous.
- I only do art because I am ugly and there is nothing else for me to do.
- At a party you just have to be fun, you don't have to be honest.
