Andy Warhol Art Quotations

Art is what you can get away with.

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

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

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

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

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

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.

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

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

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

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.

I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.

Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.

Fashion is more art than art is

You meet rich people and you hang around with them, and one night they've had a few drinks and they say 'I'll buy it!' Then they tell their friends, 'You must have this person's work, darling,' and that's all you need. That's all it takes. Get it?

Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.

Years later, I figured out why he (Ivan Karp) was such a successful art dealer-this may sound strange, but I believe it was because art was his second love. He seemed to love literature more, and he put the serious side of his nature into that...Some people are even better at their second love than their first, maybe because when they care too much, it freezes them, but knowing there's something they'd rather be doing gives them a certain freedom.

Business Art is the step that comes after Art.

Art? That's a man's name.

Everything will be art and nothing will be art, because everything, as I believe, already is.

Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?

Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.

Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.

I loved working when I worked at commercial art and they told you what to do and how to do it and all you had to do was correct it and they'd say yes or no. The hard thing is when you have to dream up the tasteless things to do on your own.

Pop art is a way of liking things.

Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody. Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about? Andy Warhol: Yes, it's liking things.

Don't think about making art...

I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

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

I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it. An artist is somebody 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.

Pop art is for everyone.

I love the English language just like I love all American things. But I confess that I don't feel confident using complex sentences or big words, hence my famous minimally expressive style - all the "gees" and laconic answers to interviewers. Most of all, I have developed listening as an art form.

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.

Most people in America think Art is a man's name.

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art

Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.

I think it would be great to make a $2 million or $3 million art movie where nobody would really have to go to it. I thought that would be a good project to work on . . . do something really artistic.

Pop art is about liking things.

Don't think about art, just get it done.

Good business is the best art of all.

I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

Land really is the best art.

I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.