Andy Warhol Quotes

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don’t think they’ve ever remembered.

Success is when the checks don’t bounce.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

If you’re not trying to be real, you don’t have to get it right. That’s art.

Sometimes the little times you don’t think are anything while they’re happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

The clothes of Courreges are so nice.

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

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.

I’m the type who’d be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn’t going to. I’m the type who’d like to sit home and watch every party that I’m invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

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.

As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I’ve found that to be absolutely axiomatic.

My 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.

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

Perception precedes reality.

Land really is the best art.

Exposure and attention make a work famous – the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.

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