Andy Warhol Quotes on Art

Andrew Warhol was one of the leading artists of the Pop Art movement and one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Warhol used images from popular culture like advertising, mass produced products and celebrities. He produced paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, photographs and films. Famous Andy Warhol artworks include “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn“, “Campbell’s Soup Can I”, “Marilyn Diptych”, “3 Coke Bottles”, and “Double Elvis”.

Mini biography: Born Andrew Warhola on the 6th of August, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. His mother was Julia Zavacká and his father was Ondrej (Andrew) Warhola . Warhol was gay and never married or had children. Andy Warhol died on the 22nd of February, 1987 in New York City, NY, U.S.A. Warhol was 58 years old when he passed away.

Andy Warhol Art Quotes

I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can. Andy Warhol

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. Andy Warhol

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

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

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. Andy Warhol

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

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

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

A lady friend of mine asked me,
“Well, what do you love most?”
That’s how I started painting money. Andy Warhol

I paint anybody, anybody that asks me. Andy Warhol

Why do people think artists are special? It’s just another job. Andy Warhol

I really do live for the future, because when I’m eating a box of candy, I can’t wait to taste the last piece. Andy Warhol

The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald’s. The most beautiful things in Stockholm is McDonald’s. Peking and Moscow don’t have anything beautiful yet. Andy Warhol

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships. Andy Warhol

I always think I don’t do the first one good, so I try to do it more. Andy Warhol

Uh, gee, great. Andy Warhol

My instinct about painting says, ‘if you don’t think about it, it’s right.’ As soon as you have to decide and choose, it’s wrong. And the more you decide about, the more wrong it gets. Andy Warhol

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

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

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. Andy Warhol

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

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

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

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For more on the popular American artist here’s three excellent Andy Warhol books: “Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again“, “The Andy Warhol Diaries“, and “Andy Warhol. Polaroids. Jumbo Edition“.

Related or similar popular artists and celebrities include: Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Jeff Koons and Jean Michel Basquiat.