Andy Warhol

10 quotes

American visual artist and leading figure in the pop art movement. His works explore celebrity culture, advertising, and artistic expression.

“As quoted by Victor Bockris in his book, Warhol: the Biography (2003), p. 327 . Bockris, Victor (August 12, 2003).  Warhol: the Biography . p. 327 . Retrieved on October 31, 2019 .”

“Scripts bore me. It's much more exciting not to know what's going to happen. I don't think that plot is important. If you see a movie of two people talking, you can watch it over and over again without being bored. You get involved”

“Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory [...] Instead of 15 minutes of fame, he will have 15 centuries. Cited in Pelé's New York Times obituary”

“When asked about this quote, he would corrupt it intentionally, including:”

“This quotation has produced a common cliché about fame in pop”

“In the future everyone will be world”

“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. In: Andy, My true Story 3, Gretchen Berg, Los Angeles Free Press (17 March 1967); as quoted in Andy Warhol, retrospective , New York and Boston Museum of modern Art & Bullfinch Press / Little Brown, 1989, pp. 457”

“The farther West we drove [to California, Fall of 1963, with Gerard Malanga , Wynn Chamberlain , and Taylor Mead for an opening of Warhol's 'Liz & Elvis paintings' at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles], the more Pop everything looked on the highways. Suddenly we all felt like insiders because even though Pop was everywhere”

“The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine”

“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. Quote in 'What is Pop Art? Answers from 8 Painters', in Art News 62”