Frases de Andy Warhol

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“El amor-fantasía, es mucho mejor que el amor-realidad.”

“No quiero ser inteligente, porque ser inteligente te deprime.”

“Comprar es mucho más americano que pensar, y yo soy el colmo de lo americano.”

“En el futuro todo el mundo será famoso durante quince minutos. Todo el mundo debería tener derecho a quince minutos de gloria.”

“En los años ochenta va a haber cada quince minutos un nuevo futuro.”

“La inspiración es la televisión.”

“La idea no es vivir para siempre, la idea es crear algo que si lo haga.”

“Lo más hermoso de Florencia es el restaurante McDonald's.”

“No creo en la muerte porque uno no está presente para saber que, en efecto, ha ocurrido.”

“Las máquinas tienen una vida más fácil. A mí me gustaría ser una máquina, ¿a usted no?”

“La sinceridad del momento es la esencia de un diario.”

“No les interesa la pintura. Catherine Guinness [véase Introducción] no se puso pesada hasta el último día, cuando empezó con esa cosa tan fastidiosa que hacen los ingleses de preguntar y preguntar: «¿Qué es exactamente el pop art?». Era como cuando entrevistamos a ese chico del blues, Albert King, para Interview, y ella le preguntó: «¿Qué es exactamente el soul?».”

“Es imposible hacer una película sin reescribir totalmente la historia.”

“James Dean era el alma dañada pero hermosa de nuestro tiempo.”

“Bésame con tus ojos.”

“Recuerda, nunca antes te habían visto en su vida.”

“Creo que todos deberían ser amables con todos.”

“Si todos no son hermosos, entonces nadie lo es.”

“En mi obra de arte, la pintura a mano llevaría demasiado tiempo y, de todos modos, esa no es la edad en que vivimos.”

“A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.”

“I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs.”

“I'm not afraid to die; I just don't want to be there when it happens”

“In the future everyone will have their fifteen minutes of fame”

“And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.”

“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”

“I am a deeply superficial person.”

“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.”

“The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.”

“Everyone winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.”

“But I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party”

“If everyone isn't beautiful, then no one is.”

“People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don’t look and it’s magic”

“Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.”

“You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.”

“Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?”

“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 believe in low lights and trick mirrors.”

“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.”

“I had a lot of dates, but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.”

“Everything has it's beauty but not everyone sees it.”

“James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time.”

“During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.”

“You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.”

“There are beautiful sounds in rock. Very lazy, dreamlike noises. You can forget about the lyrics in most songs. Just dig the noise, and you've got your sound… We're musical primitives.”

“Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, "I knew he loved me when de didn't come in my mouth.”

“People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there.”

“I think it would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.”

“Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it’s not good any more.”