Andy Warhol's most famous quotes (with sources)
The top 3 according to 81 votes from people: In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes. · A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. · Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.. (Updated Jul 4, 2021.)
Fifteen minutes of fame, "a Coke is a Coke" and business as the best art: the most quoted lines of Andy Warhol, from his 1960s interviews and The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, each with its source.
Top 13
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In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.
Catalogue of his exhibition at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1968).
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A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking.
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975).
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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975).
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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.
Interview with Gretchen Berg (1967).
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The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine.
Interview in Art News, "What Is Pop Art?" (1963).
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I think everybody should like everybody.
Interview in Art News, "What Is Pop Art?" (1963).
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They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975).
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Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975).
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Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975).
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The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's.
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975).
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An artist is somebody 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.
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975).
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I've never met a person I couldn't call a beauty.
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975).
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Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975).
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