The Philosophy of Andy Warhol Quotes

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“Everybody must have a fantasy.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what."
"My mother didn't love me." So what.
"My husband won't ball me. So what.
"I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what.
I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, "I knew he loved me when de didn't come in my mouth. ”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“I think it would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“So today if you see a person who looks like your teenage fantasy walking down the street, it's probably not your fantasy, but someone who had the same fantasy as you and decided instead of getting it or being it, to look like it, and so he went to the store and bought the look that you both like.
So forget it. Just think about all the James Deans and what it means.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“Some people spend their entire lives thinking about one particular famous person. They pick one person who's famous, and they dwell on him or her. They devote almost their entire consciousness to thinking about this person they've never even met, or maybe met once. If you ask any famous person about the kind of mail they get, you'll find that almost every one of them has at least one person who's obsessed with them and writes constantly. It feels so strange to think that someone is spending their whole time thinking about you.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can't believe that people are still pregnant.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not.
I guess it's for your own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is where having them won't make you go crazy.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can't be on your own, wich is always so much better.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“I believe in low light and trick mirrors.
I believe in plastic surgery.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“Buying is much more American than thinking.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“When you're interested in somebody, and you think they might be interested in you, you should point out all your beauty problems and defects right away, rather than take a chance they won't notice them. Maybe, say, you have a permanent beauty problem you can't change, such as too-short legs. Just say it. "My legs, as you've probably noticed, are much too short in proportion to the rest of my body." Why give the other person the satisfaction of discovering it for themselves? Once it's out in the open, at least you know it will never become an issue later on in the relationship, and if it does, you can always say, "Well I told you that in the beginning.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“She had a poignantly vacant, vulnerable quality that made her a reflection of everybody's private fantasies.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“The child-like, gum-chewing naïveté , the glamour rooted in despair, the self admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones…”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“When I did my self-portrait, I left all the pimples out because you always should. Pimples are a temporary condition and they don't have anything to do with what you really look like. Always omit the blemishes—they're not part of the good picture you want.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say 'so what'. That's one of my favorite things to say.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“A: I like your apartment.
B: It's nice, but it's only big enough for one person – or two people who are very close.
A: You know two people who are very close?”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“The symptom of love is when some of the chemicals inside you go bad. So there must be something in love because your chemicals do tell you something.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television – you don't feel anything.
Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“I will find your books and review with nastiness.”
― Andy Warhol, The philosphy of Andy Warhol

“The only time I ever want to be something is outside a party so I can get in.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“I like money on the wall. Say you were going to buy a $200,000 painting. I think you should take that money, tie it up, and hang it on the wall. Then when someone visited you the first thing they would see is the money on the wall.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol