I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week...to remind me how fragile life is. Andy Warhol More Quotes by Andy Warhol More Quotes From Andy Warhol If there's ever a problem, I film it and it's no longer a problem. It's a film. Andy Warhol filmproblemifs I think every painting should be the same size and the same color so they're all interchangeable and nobody thinks they have a better painting or a worse painting.... Besides even when the subject is different, people want the same painting. Andy Warhol colorpeoplethinking I thought that young people had more problems than old people...Then I looked around and saw that everybody who looked young had young problems and that everybody who looked old had old problems. Andy Warhol sawsproblempeople I'm seeking out a new way to live and if it's surfing, that's the way I'll do it. I'll be a surfer for the rest of my life. Andy Warhol surferway-to-livesurfing But I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party Andy Warhol partythreetwo New York restaurants are about selling atmospheres. Andy Warhol atmospheresellingnew-york I love it when you ask actors, 'What are you Doing now?' and they say 'I'm between roles'. To be living 'life between roles' that's my favorite Andy Warhol live-liferolesactors Every song has a memory; every song has the ability to make or break your heart, shut down the heart, and open the eyes. But I’m afraid if you look at a thing long enough; it loses all of its meaning Andy Warhol heartsongmemories People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there. Andy Warhol fantasygivingpeople I know a girl who just looks at her face in the medicine cabinet mirror and never looks below her shoulders, and she's four or five hundred pounds but she doesn't see all that, she just sees a beautiful face and therefore she thinks she's a beauty. And therefore, I think she's a beauty, too, because I usually accept people on the basis of their self-images, because their self-images have more to do with the way they think than their objective-images do. Andy Warhol girlbeautifulthinking Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to be, and the way some women still actually want to be. Drags are ambulatory archives of ideal moviestar womanhood. They perform a documentary service, usually consecrating their lives to keeping the glittering alternative alive and available for (not-too-close) inspection. Andy Warhol womenqueenspeople I get so tired of painting. I've been trying to give it up all the time, if we could just make a living out of movies or the newspaper business or something. It's so boring, painting the same picture over and over. Andy Warhol tiredtryinggiving Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil - of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them and tape-record them. But I didn't think of myself as evil - just realistic. Andy Warhol evilpeoplethinking You have to hang on in periods when your style isn't popular, because if it's good, it'll come back, and you'll be a recognized beauty once again. Andy Warhol styleperiodsifs Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist. Andy Warhol wantstepsart The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second — comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators, Coke bottles. All the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried not to notice at all. Andy Warhol bottlesartistmen 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 paylove-is How can you say one style is better than another? You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week, or a Pop artist, or a realist, without feeling you've given up something.. I think that would be so great, to be able to change styles. And I think that's what's is going to happen, that's going to be the whole new scene. Andy Warhol artistnext-weekthinking My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. People are only glamorous if you don't see them. Like the movies used to make people years ago. There is something about people on screen that makes them so special; when you see them in person, they are so different and the whole illusion is gone. Andy Warhol peopleyearsideas What I was actually trying to do in my early movies was show how people can meet other people and what they can do and what they can say to each other. That was the whole idea: two people getting acquainted. Andy Warhol twopeopleideas
