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."

“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

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

— Andy Warhol

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

— Andy Warhol

Work

“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

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

— Andy Warhol

Art

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

— Andy Warhol

Art

“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

“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

“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

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

— Andy Warhol

Change

“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

“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

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

— Andy Warhol

Home

“Land really is the best art.”

— Andy Warhol

Art

“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'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

“Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.”

— Andy Warhol

Famous

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

— Andy Warhol

Great

“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