Andy Warhol Quotes - Page 10

Everything is more glamorous when you do it in bed anyway.

I just [take pictures] because the camera is something to carry around in my pocket.

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

Business Art is the step that comes after Art.

Don't think about making art.

Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.

I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.

After Wakefield Poole's films, mine are unnecessary and a bit naive, don't you think?

When I was in the hospital after I was shot they gave me drugs, but it was so great to get off those.

I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody.

Everything is beautiful. Pop is everything.

My style was always to spread out rather than to move up.

In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all the lighter things in life, which are the most important things, are put down.

Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody. Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about? Andy Warhol: Yes, it's liking things.

I wish I hadn't made so many images.

Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.

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

I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back.

...after you stop wanting things is when having them won't make you go crazy. After you stop wanting them is when you can handle having them. Or before. But never during. If you get things when you really want them, you go crazy. Everything becomes distorted when something you really want is sitting in your lap.

The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. People are only glamorous if you don't see them. Like the movies used to make people years ago. There is something about people on screen that makes them so special; when you see them in person, they are so different and the whole illusion is gone.

I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.

It's great not to be a collector.

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

Believe me... I've made a career out of being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. That's one thing... I really do know about.