22 Andy Warhol Quotes on Art

Andy Warhol quotes on art

2. Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody. Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about? Andy Warhol: Yes, it's liking things.

6. Edward Smith: Would you like to see your pictures on as many walls as possible, then? Andy Warhol: Uh, no, I like them in closets.

7. Edward Smith: Why is it more of a pleasure to do 30 or 40 pictures than to do just one? Andy Warhol: Then I can, uh, listen to my soundabout which looks just like the thing that I'm wearing now, and you can listen to opera and stuff like that. Edward Smith: Does that mean you don't have to think when you're painting? Andy Warhol: No, you can listen to really good music. Edward Smith: So, what, painting is an excuse to listen to really good music? Andy Warhol: Oh, yeah.

9. The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.

11. 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.

17. I am a deeply superficial person.

18. I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.

20. I keep reading about this, erm, Indian guy that turns out like three or four thousand pictures a minute...or maybe it's a day.

22. I just think any picture you take is a good picture.

24. I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

27. I never read. I just look at pictures.

29. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

30. I think it would be so great if more people took up silk screening,so that no one would know whether my picture was mine or somebody else.

32. I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

33. I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!

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

37. 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.

39. It doesn't matter if it displays Mona Lisa, a Banana or Hans Rittman's glasses - the fact is it must be pop!

42. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

49. Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.

50. Art is what you can get away with.

51. I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts.