Andy Warhol, original name Andrew Warhola, was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. and died on February 22, 1987 in New York. Andy is known as an famous painter, American artist and filmmaker. His painting was sold very expensive, some of which are as follow ;
• Green Car Crash (1963) Sold for $71.7 million in 2007 at Christie’s New York.
• Men in Her Life (1962) Sold for $63.4 million in 2010 at Phillips de Pury & Co, New York.
• 200 One Dollar Bills (1962)in 2009 at Sotheby’s New York, Sold for $43.8 million.
Inside his studio he was almost killed by radical feminist Valerie Solanas in June 1968, by shot. At the age of 58
Warhol died shortly after gallbladder surgery on Feb. 22, 1987. This post contains a collection of quotes by Andy Warhol on Art and beauty.
Andy Warhol Quotes
- “Everything has it beauty, but not everyone sees it.” — Andy Warhol
- “If you can convince yourself that you look fabulous, you can save yourself the trouble of primping.” — Andy Warhol
- “I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.” — Andy Warhol
- “I always notice flowers.” — Andy Warhol
- “Just because people throw it out and don’t have any use for it, doesn’t mean it’s garbage.” — Andy Warhol
- “Beauty is a sign of intelligence.” – Andy Warhol
- “I always hear myself saying, ‘She’s a beauty!’ or ‘He’s a beauty!’ or ‘What a beauty!’ but I never know what I’m talking about.” — Andy Warhol
- “An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.” — Andy Warhol
- “The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.” — Andy Warhol
- “The idea is not to live forever; it is to create something that will.” – Andy Warhol
- “A picture means I know where I was every minute. That’s why I take pictures. It’s a visual diary.” – Andy Warhol
- “I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.” – Andy Warhol
- “Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.” – Andy Warhol
- “But I’m afraid if you look at a thing long enough; it loses all of its meaning.” – Andy Warhol
- “Don’t think about making art, just get it done.” – Andy Warhol
“Art is what you can get away with.” – Andy Warhol
- “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” — Andy Warhol
- “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.” — Andy Warhol
- “It doesn’t matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” —Andy Warhol
- “As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.” — Andy Warhol
- “The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting.” — Andy Warh
- “It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.” – Andy Warhol
- “I don’t want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.” — Andy Warhol
- “Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.” – Andy Warhol
- “And your own life while it’s happening to you never has any atmosphere until it’s a memory.” — Andy Warhol
- “Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.” — Andy Warhol
- “You have to do stuff that average people don’t understand because those are the only good things.” – Andy Warhol
- “I never fall apart, because I never fall together.” – Andy Warhol
“Everybody must have a fantasy.” — Andy Warhol
- “You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.” — Andy Warhol
- “People should fall in love with their eyes closed.” — Andy Warhol
- “I wonder if it’s possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.” – Andy Warhol
- “Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?” — Andy Warhol
- “I’m not afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” — Andy Warhol
- “Someday everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that seems to be what is happening.” – Andy Warhol
- “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.” – Andy Warhol
- “I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don’t try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordinary.” – Andy Warhol
- “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
- “I like to be the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place. Being the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place is worth it because something interesting always happens.” — Andy Warhol
- “I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.” – Andy Warhol
- “I’m not afraid to die; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” – AndyWarhol
- “In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.” – Andy Warhol
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- “Beauty is a sign of intelligence.” – Andy Warhol
- “I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.” – Andy Warhol
- “I wonder if it’s possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.” – Andy Warhol
- “You have to do stuff that average people don’t understand because those are the only good things.” – Andy Warhol
- “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.”- Andy Warhol.
- “When a person is the beauty of their day, and their looks are really in style, and then the times change and tastes change, and ten years go by, and if they keep exactly their same look and don’t change anything and if they take care of themselves, they’ll still be a beauty.”- 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
“I think everybody should be nice to everybody.” — Andy Warhol
- “Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they’ll just have to learn how to be babies longer.”- Andy Warhol
- “If everybody’s not a beauty, then nobody is.”- Andy Warhol.
- “I think everybody should like everybody.”- Andy Warhol
- “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.”- Andy Warhol”I’ve decided something: commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.”- Andy Warhol.
- “What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.”- Andy Warhol
- “I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell?”- Andy Warhol
- “Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around.”- Andy Warhol
- “It’s the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented.”- Andy Warhol
- “People sometimes say the way things happen to you in the movies in unreal, but it’s the way things happen to you in real life that’s unreal. “- Andy Warhol.
- “I am a deeply superficial person.”- Andy Warhol.
- “I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.”- Andy Warhol
- “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.”- Andy Warhol
