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.’
ANDY WARHOLI 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.’
ANDY WARHOLI don’t want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.
ANDY WARHOLI think anybody can take a good picture. My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous. It’s being in the right place at the wrong time.
ANDY WARHOLBeing born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
ANDY WARHOLI’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
ANDY WARHOLEverything will be art and nothing will be art, because everything, as I believe, already is.
ANDY WARHOLThe most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
ANDY WARHOLI always notice flowers.
ANDY WARHOLMy fascination with letting images repeat and repeat or in film’s case ‘run on’ manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.
ANDY WARHOLExposure and attention make a work famous – the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.
ANDY WARHOLPop art is about liking things.
ANDY WARHOLWhy do people think artists are special? It’s just another job.
ANDY WARHOLBeing good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.
ANDY WARHOLDon’t think about making art, just get it done.
ANDY WARHOLEverybody winds up kissing the wrong person good-night.
ANDY WARHOLThey always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
ANDY WARHOL