Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

25 quotes

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."

“Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.”

— Andy Warhol

Famous

All Quotes by Andy Warhol

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

— Andy Warhol

Art

“I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.”

— Andy Warhol

Home

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

— Andy Warhol

Change

“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

“My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.”

— Andy Warhol

Famous

“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

“People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.”

— Andy Warhol

Learning

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

— Andy Warhol

Famous

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

— Andy Warhol

Change

“It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.”

— Andy Warhol

Great

“I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.”

— Andy Warhol

Money

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

— Andy Warhol

Art

“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

“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

“Land really is the best art.”

— Andy Warhol

Art

“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