Andy Warhol Quotes

I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up.

And for Kevin Costner,, he'll have a big career.

I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me.

But I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party

One thing I miss is the time when America had big dreams about the future. Now it seems like nobody has big hopes for the future. We all seem to think that it’s going to be just like it is now, only worse.

Buying is much more American than thinking.

I guess it was the big plane crash picture [why Warhol started his 'Death'-series], the front page of a newspaper: '129 DIED'. I was also painting the Marilyns [the Marylin Monroe portraits, Warhol started after her tragic death in 1962] I realized that everything I was doing must have been Death. It was Christmas or Labor Day - a holiday - and every time that you turned on the radio they said something like '4 millions are going to die'. That started it. But when you see a gruesome picture over and over again, it doesn't really have any effect.

The more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.

In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all the lighter things in life, which are the most important things, are put down.

I told Jack I loved Body Heat. Because he's out here in the sticks and so he doesn't see anything. I said it was a real hot movie. He kept asking about the girl, Kathleen Turner, and I said that she'd never be remembered.

History books are being re-written all the time

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

The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.

Security breeds stagnation.

People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don’t look and it’s magic