Andy Warhol quotes

“The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.”

— Andy Warhol

“Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.”

— Andy Warhol

“Land really is the best art.”

— Andy Warhol

“I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.”

— Andy Warhol

“Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.”

— Andy Warhol

“The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.”

— Andy Warhol

“What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.”

— Andy Warhol

“I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?”

— Andy Warhol

“I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.”

— Andy Warhol

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

— Andy Warhol

“I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'”

— Andy Warhol

“I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'”

— Andy Warhol

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

— Andy Warhol

“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.”

— Andy Warhol