Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

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Andy Warhol, an American artist and filmmaker, is widely remembered for insights that continue to resonate with readers everywhere. Andy Warhol's observations on Art are as sharp as their thoughts on Famous, revealing genuine breadth of mind. Browse 39 quotes by Andy Warhol that cover ground from Art, Famous, Best, Money, and Home. A favorite of many readers: "In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."

“Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.”

— Andy Warhol

Best

All Quotes by Andy Warhol

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”

— Andy Warhol

Change

“Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?”

— Andy Warhol

Change

“It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.”

— Andy Warhol

Movies

“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. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.”

— Andy Warhol

Work

“I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.”

— Andy Warhol

Home

“Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.”

— Andy Warhol

Love

“I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”

— Andy Warhol

Art

“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.”

— Andy Warhol

Art

“Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.”

— Andy Warhol

Best

“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.”

— Andy Warhol

Art

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

— Andy Warhol

Famous

“Land really is the best art.”

— Andy Warhol

Art

“Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.”

— Andy Warhol

Famous

“What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.”

— Andy Warhol

Great

“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.”

— Andy Warhol

Home

“I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?”

— Andy Warhol

Funny

“When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.”

— Andy Warhol

Relationship

“Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”

— Andy Warhol

Art

“In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.”

— Andy Warhol

Famous

“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”

— Andy Warhol

Art