Quotes by Andy Warhol

I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. Its art if you see it as art.

Art is what you get away with

I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. Its art if you see it as art. The best art are those dime novels. People will put those books in a museum one day. Artists will make paintings of them. Theyre beautiful. And for everyone. Thats how I want my art to be.

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

Everybody must have a fantasy.

Romance is finding your fantasy in people who dont have it.

The child-like, gum-chewing naïveté , the glamour rooted in despair, the self admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones…

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

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.

After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex.

You have to do stuff that average people dont understand because those are the only good things.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what.My mother didnt love me. So what.My husband wont ball me. So what.Im a success but Im still alone. So what.I dont 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.

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.

If I ever have to cast an acting role, I want the wrong person for the part. I can never visualize the right person in a part. The right person for the right part would be too much. Besides, no person is every completely right for any part, because part in a role is never real, so if you cant get someone whos perfectly right, its more satisfying to get someone whos perfectly wrong. Then you know youve really got something.

Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can’t see…So the fantasy corners of America…you’ve pieced them together from scenes in movies and music and lines from books. And you live in your dream America that you’ve custom-made from art and schmaltz and emotions just as much as you live in your real one.

Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.

Kiss me with your eyes.

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

Its 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

Dont pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.