Andy Warhol Quotes

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

The girls in California were probably prettier in a standard sense than the New York girls — blonder and in better health, I guess; but I still preferred the way the girls in New York looked — stranger and more neurotic (a girl always looked more beautiful and fragile when she was about to have a nervous breakdown).

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

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

You always liked disasters. You liked Grease II

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

You'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.

Everything is more glamorous when you do it in bed anyway.

A: I like your apartment.
B: It's nice, but it's only big enough for one person – or two people who are very close.
A: You know two people who are very close?

Security breeds stagnation.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say 'so what'. That's one of my favorite things to say.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what." That's one of my favorite things to say. "So what." "My mother didn't love me." So what. "My husband won't ball me." So what. "I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what. I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.

A lot of people thought it was me everyone at the 'Factory' was hanging around, that I was some kind of big attraction that everyone came to see, but that's absolutely backward: it was me who was hanging around everyone else. I just paid the rent, and the crowds came simply because the door was open. People weren't particularly interested in seeing me; they were interested in seeing each other. They came to see who came.

everything has it's beauty but not everyone sees it

What I was actually trying to do in my early movies was show how people can meet other people and what they can do and what they can say to each other. That was the whole idea: two people getting acquainted. And then when you saw it and you saw the sheer simplicity of it, you learned what it was all about. Those movies showed you how some people act and react with other people. They were like actual sociological 'For instance's. They were like documentaries, and if you thought it could apply to you, it was an example, and if it didn't apply to you, at least it was a documentary, it could apply to somebody you knew and it could clear up some questions you had about them.