Andy Warhol Quotes

It's hard to be creative and it's also hard not to think what you do is creative or hard not to be called creative because everybody is always talking about that and individuality. Everybody's always creative. And it is so funny when you say things aren't, like the shoe I would draw for an advertisement was called a 'creation', but the drawing of it was not.. .There are millions of actors. They're all pretty good. And how many painters are there? Millions of painters and all pretty good. How can you say one style is better then another. You ought to be able to be an Abstract-expressionist next week, or a Pop artist, or a realist, without feeling you're given up something.

I'm not afraid to die; I just don't want to be there when it happens

I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.

Some people spend their entire lives thinking about one particular famous person. They pick one person who's famous, and they dwell on him or her. They devote almost their entire consciousness to thinking about this person they've never even met, or maybe met once. If you ask any famous person about the kind of mail they get, you'll find that almost every one of them has at least one person who's obsessed with them and writes constantly. It feels so strange to think that someone is spending their whole time thinking about you.

When I did my self-portrait, I left all the pimples out because you always should. Pimples are a temporary condition and they don't have anything to do with what you really look like. Always omit the blemishes — they're not part of the good picture you want.

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

...that's when I realized that Bianca doesn't really take drugs - just a few poppers and maybe some coke once in a while but otherwise she's not on drugs, she's normal.

"Знаех, че скоро ще имаме големи проблеми с цензурата - поне в случай, че филмите ни продължат да привличат вниманието, и предполагам, че някъде дълбоко в ума ми се беше загнездила хитрата идея колко добре ще е да имаме поне по един изпълнител във филм, който да може да говори добре. В законовата дефиниция на "непристоен" стоеше фразата "без балансираща социална стойност" и ми хрумна, че ако намеря някоя красавица, която да сваля дрехие си, да пристъпва във ваната и да говори толкова интелигентно, колкото Вива ("Знаете ли, Чърчил е прекарвал по шест часа на ден във ваната си."), имам по-голям шанс с цензорите, отколкото с някоя кикотеща се тийнейджърка, казваща "Искам да го почувствам.

We went to see Dr No [first James Bond film, 1962] at Fort-Second Street. It's a fantastic movie, so cool. We walked outside and somebody threw a cherry bomb right in front of us, in this big crowd. And there was blood. I saw blood on people and all over. I felt like I was bleeding all over. I saw in the paper last week that there are more people throwing them - it's just part of the scene - and hurting people. My show in Paris is to be called Death in America. I'll show the Electric-chair pictures and the Dogs in Birmingham and car wrecks and some suicide pictures.

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

"Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just 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.

And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love.

I know good cooks who’ll spend days finding fresh garlic and fresh basil and fresh tarragon, etc., and then use canned tomatoes for the sauce, saying it doesn’t matter. But I know it does matter.

I never fall apart, because I never fall together.

Edward Lucie-Smith: Would you like to see your pictures on as many walls as possible, then?
Andy Warhol: Uh, no, I like them in closets.