Andy Warhol

Pop Artist Filmmaker American 1928 – 1987

Pioneered pop art and questioned the boundaries between high and commercial art.

378 quotes

"Business art is the best art."
Art
"I love Prince and I love listening to Prince."
Music
"Gee, what a nice thought."
Humor
"I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own."
Nature
"If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings."
Art
"I've decided something: Commercial things are art. Warhol canned goods are art."
Art
"Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."
"I think everybody should be interested in saving their life."
Life
"I'm trying to think, when was the last time I went on a date?"
Relationships
"I woke up to the terrible realization that I can no longer paint."
Creativity
"Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?"
Life
"What's the point of going out? I'm just going to end up back here anyway."
Life
"I'd prefer to remain a mystery. I never like to give my background."
Solitude
"The most beautiful thing is not being appreciated."
Beauty
"I think everybody should like everybody."
Love
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up."
Humor
"I want to do something now but I don't know what."
Motivation
"I never read the papers. Why do you read the papers?"
Knowledge
"Do you believe in the American Dream?"
Dreams
"I've never met a person I couldn't call a beauty."
Beauty
"The President is all the art for me right now."
Politics
"I like people, but I like them in short bursts."
Friendship
"It's fun to lose yourself in someone else's work and someone else's mind."
Creativity
"I believe that everyone is beautiful in their own way."
Kindness
"In New York we have a thousand gay bars."
Freedom
"Time is money, money is time."
Time
"Silence is very important. Where would be the character in your art if silence wasn't there?"
Art
"Making money is art, and working is art, and good business is the best art."
Work
"I really believe in empty spaces."
Art
"I always wanted to do a self-portrait."
Art