Warhol Quotes · Page 3

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

— Mary Harron

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

— Cynthia Rowley

I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

Warhol took outcasts and made them into stars. There will never be another artist like him.

— Udo Kier

I've collected Andy Warhol art for years now I have two portraits of myself done by Steve Kaufman.

— David Caruso

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

— Andy Warhol

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

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

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

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

— Daniel Boulud

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

When I hear the Spice Girls, yeah, all that '90s stuff, like Limp Bizkit. Dandy Warhols! Whenever I hear them, it takes…

— Jancee Dunn

Sometimes the presence of a camera is like opening a door, because many people want what Andy Warhol called "15 minutes of…

— Michael Glawogger

I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Andy Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture. I do…

— Damian Loeb

If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power…

— Arne Glimcher

Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only…

— Dan Graham

Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet…

— Lewis H. Lapham

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

— Roxanne Lowit

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

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

— Bob Colacello

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'm attracted to the work of younger artists, and it's affordable compared to mature art, so you can take a chance much…

— Laurence Graff

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

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

— James Murphy

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

— David Sylvester

In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War…

— Anonymous

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

— Deborah Kass

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

I'd like to think, that were he alive today, Warhol would be painting the Housewives.

— Andy Cohen

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

— Neil Sedaka

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

I never heard my mom say, "Not now, I'm busy." But I did have extraordinary experiences that I'm very aware were extraordinary.…

— Tracee Ellis Ross

I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol…

— Marianne Faithfull

I started hanging out with the Warhol crowd. I was very young, it seemed like an awful lot was going one and…

— Patti D'Arbanville

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

— Andy Warhol

“What would Warhol be without his paranoia, Hunter S. Thompson without his Quaaludes, Johnny Cash without his philandering? We Somebodies are not…

— J.T. Lawrence

Edward Smith: What do you think is the characteristic of a really nice person? Some people you obviously do like more than…

— Andy Warhol