A biography for Andy Warholhasn’t been written yet.
“I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.”
“The child-like, gum-chewing naïveté , the glamour rooted in despair, the self admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones…”
“Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.”
“I went to vote once, but I got too scared. I couldn't decide whom to vote for.”
“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.”
“If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.”
“Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.”
“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.'”
“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.”
“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what.""My mother didn't love me." So what."My husband won't ball me. So what."I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what.I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.”
“The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.”
“I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.”
“I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.”
“Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.”
“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.”
“You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.”
“I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.”
“I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.”
“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.”
“My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.”