Warhol Quotes · Page 2

“In The Past, Andy Warhol Will Be Psychic For 15 seconds”

— Dean Cavanagh

Cecil Beaton was Andy Warhol before Andy Warhol, really.

— Giles Deacon

Warhol was proof that you can be revolutionary without being militant.

— Maurizio Cattelan

You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the…

— Barbara Kruger

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

— Allen Ginsberg

There was no way I could write a paper knowing that Andy Warhol and Boy George were partying at Danceteria.

— Michael Alig

I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.

— Eileen Myles

In 1970, television ate my family. The Andy Warhol prophecy of 15 minutes of fame for any and everyone blew up on our doorstep.

— Lance Loud

When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop…

— John Currin

Hey, Cunningham - Andy Warhol called. You're at 14:55 and we're tickin' big-time here, Chachi.

— Dennis Miller

When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, 'God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!'

— Dolly Parton

Eugene Mirman is the Andy Warhol of comedy. People look to him for what's next in comedy, and he emails these people…

— Mike Birbiglia

It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol,…

— Camille Paglia

25 years ago, when I started in New York, I had the pleasure to cook for Andy Warhol. At the time, I…

— Daniel Boulud

I think Chelsea Girls is a complete masterpiece and I think Andy's [Warhol] films are equally as good as the art. I…

— John Waters

I was a fan of Andy's since I was a small kid. I recall seeing an ad of famous people on an…

— Jeffrey Deitch

My work doesn't have the same rules as, say, Andy [Warhol]'s work. But it's gathered together for the simple reason that we…

— Claes Oldenburg

Andy Warhol was a good friend of mine. We used to go to the Studio 54 nightclub together with the likes of…

— Neil Sedaka

The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who…

— Amiri Baraka

A real New Yorker is always someone who came here from somewhere else to avoid some kind of persecution, often sexual-preference based,…

— Genesis P-Orridge

Curator Shantrelle P. Lewis left for Amsterdam an Andy Warhol fellow, and came back with a film in her pocket. Please support…

— dream hampton

I took photos from 1976 to when I left in 1993, primarily for Interview and a column I had called "Bob Colacello's…

— Bob Colacello

It’s like saying beauty is in the eye of the beholder: what appears to be beautiful today may not be judged beautiful…

— Peter M. Brant

I think his portraits of Jackie, Liz, Marilyn, Mao, Elvis, Lenin - and objects like the soup cans, the dollar signs, the…

— Bob Colacello

I'd been asked by Takashi Murakami to collaborate on something, which was an honor for me. I was really pleased. And then…

— Hiroshi Fujiwara

Somehow Annie Flanders from the SoHo News heard I was doing pictures and was headed to Paris. She saw my worked, liked…

— Roxanne Lowit

And out of the blue, I got a call from an editor friend at Knopf and she said that they were interested…

— Bob Colacello

I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have…

— J. G. Ballard

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

— Andy Warhol

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and…

— Andy Warhol

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

— Kanye West

Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his…

— Ai Weiwei

Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods.

— David Sylvester

Warhol had resonance because it was high art and low art. And you could argue about it endlessly.

— James Murphy

People have a tendency to think I was part of Warhol's Factory - I never was. I've always been independent.

— Michel Auder

I don't think he'd [Andy Warhol] be that amazed because he was so driven to be the Picasso of the second half…

— Bob Colacello

Andy Warhol says everyone will be famous for 15 minutes in the future, but even he couldn't have imagine today's fame is…

— Steve Kaufman

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

— Andy Warhol

You have to [go outside your comfort zone]. Andy Warhol said 'say yes to everything'.

— Cynthia Rowley

I was lucky with my first film because it had Warhol in it. That was the selling point.

— Mary Harron