Andy Warhol Quotes

"I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

Business art is the step that comes after art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist. Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. During the hippie era people put down the idea of business. They’d say “money is bad” and “working is bad”. But making money is art, and working is art - and good business is the best art.

In the future, fifteen people will be famous.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do.

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?

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.

People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there.

In fifteen minutes, everyone will be famous.

When you're interested in somebody, and you think they might be interested in you, you should point out all your beauty problems and defects right away, rather than take a chance they won't notice them.. .On the other hand, say you have a purely temporary beauty problem—a new pimple, lackluster hair, no-sleep eyes, five extra pounds around the middle. Still, whatever it is, you should point it out.. .If you don't point out these things they might think that your temporary beauty problem is a permanent beauty problem.. .If they really do like you for yourself, they'll be willing to use their imagination to think of what you must look like without your temporary beauty problem.

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.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

You know it's ART, when the check clears.

I really don't care that much about 'Beauties'. What I really like are Talkers.