Warhol Quotes

“I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.”

“I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art.”

“Art is what you get away with”

“Kiss me with your eyes.”

“Don't think about making art, just get it done. 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.”

“Business art is the step that comes after art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist. Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. During the hippie era people put down the idea of business. They’d say “money is bad” and “working is bad”. But making money is art, and working is art - and good business is the best art.”

“You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.”

“In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace.”

“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.”