Andy Warhol Quotations | Page 4

I’m really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Everybody must have a fantasy.

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

I think everybody should like everybody.

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.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic.

I wake up every morning. I open my eyes and think: here we go again.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

I've always thought that the President could do so much here to help change images. If the President would go into a public bathroom in the Capitol, and have the TV cameras film him cleaning the toilets and saying 'Why not? Somebody's got to do it!' then that would do so much for the morale of the people who do the wonderful job of keeping the toilets clean. I mean, it is a wonderful thing that they're doing.

I like to be the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place. Being the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place is worth it because something interesting always happens.

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.

There should be a course in first grade on love.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

The wide multitude wanted to seem contrarian. It meant that this type of nonconformism had to be mass-produced.

When the Woolworth's-Hot-Fudge-Sundae switch goes on, then I know I really have something.

The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is

You expect them to keep up. With a brand like Levi's, you are the jeans of the world.

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there -- I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

Fashion, ... wasn't what you wore someplace anymore. It was the whole reason for going.

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself

It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true: 'In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.' I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, 'In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous.

In the future everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes

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