Andy Warhol Quotes - Page 7

I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.

I've never made the separation between, say, the museum and the hardware store. I mean, I enjoy both of them, and I want to combine the two.

People in uniform always look so great.

If you can convince yourself that you look fabulous, you can save yourself the trouble of primping.

Pop art is for everyone.

I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.

I will go to the Opening of Anything, including a Toilet Seat

Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory: instead of fifteen minutes of fame, he will have fifteen centuries.

All photography is Pop, and all photographers are crazy... they feel guilty since they don't have to do very much - just push a button.

The world fascinates me.

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.

Rodeo Drive is a giant butterscotch sundae.

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

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. “A man is what he thinks about all day long.” [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. Aldous Huxley

When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can't believe that people are still pregnant.

When you do something exactly wrong, you always turn up something.

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.

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

Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it’s not good any more.

I want to die with my blue jeans on.

When you work with people who misunderstand you, instead of getting transmissions, you get transmutations, and that's much more interesting in the long run.

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

I never read, I just look at pictures.

There are beautiful sounds in rock. Very lazy, dreamlike noises. You can forget about the lyrics in most songs. Just dig the noise, and you've got your sound...We're musical primitives.

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.