andy warhol Quotes

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."Andy Warhol

- Andy Warhol

After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex.

- Andy Warhol

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what.""My mother didn't love me." So what."My husband won't ball me. So what."I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what.I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.

- Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

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.

- Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol in His Own Words

The child-like, gum-chewing naïveté , the glamour rooted in despair, the self admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones…

- Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Business art is the step that comes after art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist. Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. During the hippie era people put down the idea of business. They’d say “money is bad” and “working is bad”. But making money is art, and working is art - and good business is the best art.

- Andy Warhol

Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it.

- Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Kiss me with your eyes.

- Andy Warhol

I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.

- Andy Warhol

Everybody must have a fantasy.

- Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

You focus on telling stories,
we do everything else.