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 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 WARHOLIsn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
ANDY WARHOLWhen you stop wanting something, you get it.
ANDY WARHOLEverything will be art and nothing will be art, because everything, as I believe, already is.
ANDY WARHOLYou’d be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.
ANDY WARHOLAnd your own life while it’s happening to you never has any atmosphere until it’s a memory.
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 WARHOLSince I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don’t know whether I’m alive or whether I died. I wasn’t afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn’t feel fear. But I am afraid. I don’t understand why.
ANDY WARHOLI always think I don’t do the first one good, so I try to do it more.
ANDY WARHOLIn the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.
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 WARHOLWhy do people think artists are special? It’s just another job.
ANDY WARHOLThere is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it
ANDY WARHOLI always notice flowers.
ANDY WARHOLMaking money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
ANDY WARHOL