All Quotes
2989 quotes in total
“, and this Obama has shown he can do.”
“The Cushion in the Road”
“Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?”
“They calls me yellow like yellow be my name. They calls me yellow like yellow be my name. But if yellow is a name Why aint black the same. Well, if I say Hey black girl Lord, she try to ruin my game.”
“I don’t know nothing, I think. And glad of it.”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“In the future everyone will be world”
“This quotation has produced a common cliché about fame in pop”
“When asked about this quote, he would corrupt it intentionally, including:”
“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”
“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”
“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 .”
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. The Little Prince (1943), Ch. 21”
“You become responsible forever for what you have tamed. The Little Prince (1943), Ch. 21”
“The time that you have wasted for your rose is what makes your rose so important. The Little Prince (1943), Ch. 21”
“A goal without a plan is just a wish”
“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Wind, Sand and Stars (1939)”
“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Wind, Sand and Stars (1939)”
“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. Wind, Sand and Stars (1939)”
“Men have forgotten this truth. But you must not forget it. The Little Prince (1943), Ch. 21”
“The one thing that matters is to strive to attain something”
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea”
“The Chain of Reason versus the Chain of Thumbs”
“Here, then: a revolution [in science and chemistry] has taken place in an important part of human knowledge since your departure from Europe... I will consider this revolution to be well advanced and even completely accomplished if you range yourself with us. ...After having brought you up to date on what is happening in chemistry, it would be well to speak to you about our political revolution. We regard it as done and without any possibility of return to the old order. Letter to Benjamin Franklin (Feb 2, 1790) as quoted by I. Bernard Cohen , Revolution in Science”
“We think only through the medium of words.”
“Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry. p.xiv”
“It is a maxim universally admitted in geometry, and indeed in every branch of knowledge, that , in the progress of investigation, we should proceed from known facts to what is unknown. ...In this manner , from a series of sensations, observations, and analyses, a successive train of ideas arises, so linked together, that an attentive observer may trace back to a certain point the order and connection of the whole sum of human knowledge. pp. xv”