Latest Quotes

“I like boring things.”

— Andy Warhol, Holy Terror

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

— Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up

“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.”

— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)

“I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts.”

— Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol Poster

“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, Holy Terror

“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

“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, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)

“I am a deeply superficial person.”

— Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol and the Deep Surface

“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes.”

— Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol Stockholm Catalogue

“We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.”

— Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

“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)

“It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.”

— Andy Warhol, POPism

“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)

“I think everybody should like everybody.”

— Andy Warhol, Interview with Gene Swenson, Art News (1963)

“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)

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

— Andy Warhol, About

“The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting.”

— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)

“As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.”

— Any Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)

“People should fall in love with their eyes closed.”

— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)

“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)