An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.
Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.
Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.
Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say "figment."
I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.
I am a deeply superficial person.
I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.
I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.
I like boring things.
I love him, I worship him. I masturbate to Duran Duran videos.
I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.
I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so American.
I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.
I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous."
I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.
I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.
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 the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.
It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.
Land really is the best art.
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.
Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.
People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.
Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.
I would rather watch somebody buy their underwear than read a book they wrote.
In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes"
Success is when the checks don't bounce.
I'd prefer to remain a mystery. I never like to give my background and, anyway, I make it all up different every time I'm asked. It's not just that it's part of my image not to tell everything, it's just that I forget what I said the day before, and I have to make it all up over again.
Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist. After I did the thing called 'art' or whatever it's called, I went into business art. I wanted to be an Art Businessman or a Business Artist. Being good in business in the most fascinating kind of art.
Of course what I think is boring must not be the same as what other people think is, since I could never stand to watch all the most popular action shows on TV, because they're essentially the same plots and the same shots and the same cuts over and over again. Apparently, most people love watching the same basic thing, as long as the details are different. But I'm just the opposite: if I'm going to sit and watch the same thing I saw the night before, I don't want it to be essentially the same - I want it to be exactly the same. Because the more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.
1984 Andy Warhol and Don Monroe directed music video "Hello Again" for The Cars. Andy also appeared in the music video playing The Bartender
Interred at St. John the Baptist Catholic Cemetery, Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
In 1990, Lou Reed and John Cale made a CD album called "Songs for Drella" as a tribute to Warhol with 15 songs about Warhol's life.
Pictured on a USA 37? commemorative postage stamp issued 9 August 2002.
"Produced" The Velvet Underground's first album, essentially lending his name to their work and observing them in the recording studio, while Lou Reed and later Tom Wilson (who'd worked earlier with Bob Dylan) mostly called the shots. The cover of their first album (with Nico) was Warhol's design; a picture of a banana, whose peel was actually a peelable sticker!
Is credited with coining the term "superstar."
Has been portrayed on screen by over a dozen actors, including David Bowie, Crispin Glover, and Jared Harris.
When guesting on The Love Boat in 1983, he was nervous about the experience and turned to his castmate (and muse for the particular episode) Marion Ross, who calmed him down and offered some advice on how to act.
Is portrayed by Sean Gregory Sullivan in 54 (1998),
Was a frequent guest at the infamous "Studio 54"
Avoided the subject of death, except in his paintings (the Disaster series). He did not attend the funerals of his superstars nor did he attend his mother's funeral when she died in November 1972. After she passed away he continued to give the impression that she was still alive to people who would ask about her. Warhol did not mention his mother's death to any of his close friends. As late as 1976, when friends asked about his mother, Andy said, 'Oh, she's great. But she doesn't get out of bed much."
His father, who traveled much on business trips, died when Warhol was 13.
Son of Czech immigrants, his original name was "Warhola"
Warhol's "A: A Novel," published in 1968, is based on 24 hours of tape recordings (24 one-hour tapes) of Ondine speaking. His tape-recorded musings were transcribed and typed up and serve as the basis of the novel, which was disingenuously presented as one day in the life of Ondine. The book is one of the premier artifacts of the Pop art movement/Pop culture. Warhol followed Ondine around New York City with a tape recorder, recording their conversations. Ondine was addicted to amphetamines and was prone to wild verbal flights that covered many subjects. To type up the tapes, Warhol hired teenage girls, some of whom were barely literate and made many errors. Warhol "edited" the resulting manuscript during a series of concerts given by the Velvet Underground (Lou Reed is one of the "characters" in the novel), sitting in the rear of the theater in the dark, reading proof-sheets with a flashlight. Like James Joyce when confronted with transcription errors made by the French printers/compositors of the first edition of 'Ulysses' (1922), Warhol loved the mistakes and decided to keep them in. He thought the mistakes improved the book as it made it worse, more of a Pop manifesto, and insisted that all the errata be left in the final draft, which he fancied as a Pop "Finnegans Wake." In his later book/memoir "Popism," Warhol explained, "I wanted to do a 'bad book' just the way I'd done 'bad movies' and 'bad art,' because when you do something exactly wrong, you always turn up something." Warhol, the author, refused to filter out the "background noise" or "static," thus preventing the reader from following a coherent narrative thread. The book intentionally is boring, as are many of Warhol's films. Of his films Warhold said that talking about them was more interesting than actually viewing them, and this likely was his intent with "A: A Novel" -- to create an artifact that made people talk about it -- and think.
Influenced the movement of 'The New Russian Classicism'. Visited St. Petersburg, Russia and presented his 'tomato cans' to Timur Novikov and Sergei Bugayev.
Is portrayed by Guy Pearce in Factory Girl (2006)
Is portrayed by Clark Render in Ghostlight (2003)
Was among the guests at Madonna's and Sean Penn's wedding.
Godfather of Bijou Phillips.
An astute businessman in the art world, he left an estate worth $500 million when he died.
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 873-876. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
Warhol bequeathed his wig to singer David Bowie, who later wore it to portray Warhol in the film "Basquiat" (1996).
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