Andy Warhol quotes - page 5

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. (Andy Warhol)

I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.

Andy Warhol

The world fascinates me.

Andy Warhol

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.

Andy Warhol

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.

Andy Warhol

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

Andy Warhol

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.

Andy Warhol

The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.

Andy Warhol

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

Andy Warhol

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.

Andy Warhol

Every song has a memory; every song has the ability to make or break your heart, shut down the heart, and open the eyes. But I'm afraid if you look at a thing long enough; it loses all of its meaning. (Andy Warhol)

I think pot should be legal. I don't smoke it, but I like the smell of it.

Andy Warhol

James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time.

Andy Warhol

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.

Andy Warhol

It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true 'In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.' I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, 'In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous.

Andy Warhol

And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.

Andy Warhol

After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex. Of course, for some people it isn't work because they need the exercise and they've got the energy for the sex and the sex gives them even more energy. Some people get energy from sex and some people lose energy from sex. I have found that it's too much work. But if you have the time for it, and if you need that exercise-then you should do it. But you could really save yourself a lot of trouble either way by first figuring out whether you're an energy-getter or an energy-loser. As I said, I'm an energy-loser. But I can understand it when I see people running around trying to get some.

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

You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

Andy Warhol

I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts.

Andy Warhol

The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will. (Andy Warhol)

The nicer I am, the more people think I'm lying.

Andy Warhol

I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.

Andy Warhol

In: POPism (1980); as quoted in Warhol in his own words – Untitled Statements ( 1963 – 1987), selected by Neil Printz, as quoted in Andy Warhol, retrospective, Art and Bullfinch Press / Little Brown, 1989, pp. 457 – 467.

Andy Warhol

Apparently, most people love watching the same basic thing [actions shows on TV], as long as the details are different. But I'm just the opposite: if I'm going to sit and watch the same thing I saw the night before, I don't want it to be essentially the same – I want it to be exactly the same. Because the more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.

Andy Warhol

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