Andy Warhol Quotes - Page 2

I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.

I want to be a machine.

Fashion is more art than art is

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.

I’m really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts

I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is.

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Exposure and attention make a work famous - the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic.

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.

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

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

I am a deeply superficial person.

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

I never fall apart, because I never fall together.

How can you say one style is better than another? You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week, or a Pop artist, or a realist, without feeling you've given up something.. I think that would be so great, to be able to change styles. And I think that's what's is going to happen, that's going to be the whole new scene.

Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.

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

I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

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

People should fall in love with their eyes closed.

I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.

I like boring things.