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Art Quotes by Andy Warhol

57 Art quotes by Andy Warhol

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Warhol says everyone imagines their own America, plus a fantasy version they can’t see. He loves empty space, calling any art‑filled area wasted. He notes that looking at something too long strips it of meaning, while pop images like Broadway signs become instant symbols.

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Don't think about art, just get it done.

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Fashion is more art than art is

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Business Art is the step that comes after Art.

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Art is what you can get away with.

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Pop art is about liking things.

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Art? That's a man's name.

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Don't think about making art...

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Don't think about making art, just get it done.

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

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art

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

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I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

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Everything will be art and nothing will be art, because everything, as I believe, already is.

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Most people in America think Art is a man's name.

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I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

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

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“I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art.”

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An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks…

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business…

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Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it…

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I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody.

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

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We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract…

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I loved working when I worked at commercial art and they told you what to do and how to do it and…

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I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and…

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Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they…

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I think it would be great to make a $2 million or $3 million art movie where nobody would really have to…

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I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that…

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You meet rich people and you hang around with them, and one night they've had a few drinks and they say 'I'll…

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Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they…

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The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second — comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers,…

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“Interviewer: “Andy do you feel that the public has insulted your art?” Andy Warhol: “Uh no.” I: “Why not?” AW: “Uh well…

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“If I ever have to cast an acting role, I want the wrong person for the part. I can never visualize the…

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Years later, I figured out why he (Ivan Karp) was such a successful art dealer-this may sound strange, but I believe it…

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“Art is what you get away with”

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Land really is the best art.

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Good business is the best art of all.

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You know it's ART, when the check clears.

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Pop art is a way of liking things.

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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.'

“I think everybody should be nice to everybody.”

I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back.

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Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

I never fall apart, because I never fall together.

I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.

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So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that…