Warhol famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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You know what Andy Warhol's sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell's Soup a household word.
-- Alan Arkin -
I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.
-- Andy Warhol -
Andy Warhol said that in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. Facebook is exactly like that except you're not really famous and your 15 minutes goes on forever.
-- Craig Ferguson -
You have to [go outside your comfort zone]. Andy Warhol said 'say yes to everything'.
-- Cynthia Rowley -
When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.
-- Damien Hirst -
Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods.
-- David Sylvester -
Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
-- Gore Vidal -
You are not truly a Warhol superstar unless you are dead.
-- Jackie Curtis -
The 60s will be remembered for The Beatles, Andy Warhol and Me!
-- Jacqueline Susann -
When I first came to New York, in the '70s, artists were certainly divided about the Andy Warhol persona, and about the work. I thought it was utterly cool - I thought the Factory was utterly glamorous - but there were a lot of artists I really admired and respected who were older that kind of dismissed it, couldn't get it, and felt that there was a lack of seriousness about it.
-- Laurie Simmons -
I met Andy Warhol in the '60s, a wonderful time, with wonderful people. There was Fred Hughes, and Jed Johnson, who I liked a lot. Jed Johnson decorated my apartment in New York, at the Pierre. It was his first job.
-- Pierre Berge -
I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
-- Aby Rosen -
I don't think he'd [Andy Warhol] be that amazed because he was so driven to be the Picasso of the second half of the 20th century.
-- Bob Colacello -
The most famous living artist in America is Andy Warhol, unfortunately.
-- John Heilpern