A biography for Andy Warholhasn’t been written yet.
“היו לי הרבה דייטים, אבל בסוף החלטתי להישאר בבית ולצבוע את הגבות שלי.”
“אני סובל ממחלה חברתית. אני חייב לצאת כל לילה. אם אני נשאר בבית אני מתחיל להפיץ שמועות באוזני הכלבים שלי.”
“אל תשים לב למה שכותבים עליך. רק תמדוד את זה באינצ'ים.”
“להיוולד זה כמו להיחטף, ואז להימכר לעבדות.”
“אמן הוא מישהו שיוצר דברים שאנשים לא צריכים, אבל הוא חושב, מסיבה מסוימת, שזה יהיה רעיון טוב לתת אותם.”
“למה אנשים חושבים שאמנים הם מיוחדים? זו בסך הכול עוד עבודה.”
“בעתיד, כל אדם יזכה לפרסום עולמי של 15 דקות.”
“Art is what you get away with”
“Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it’s not good any more.”
“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.”
“Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil - of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them and tape-record them. But I didn't think of myself as evil - just realistic.”
“During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.”
“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.”
“I've been invited to the White House about five times. I think the greatest thing would be if they actually invited everybody to the White House every night... they'd just take about 500 people a night. Everybody would just love this country because it's so thrilling to go there. It really is.”
“Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?”
“What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too.”
“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.”
“I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordinary.”
“I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art.”
“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.”