Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Coupland

I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging is the death of creativity.

Andy Warhol

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.

Andy Warhol

Most people in America think Art is a man's name.

Andy Warhol

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

Andy Warhol

Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.

Andy Warhol

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

Andy Warhol

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art

Andy Warhol

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

Andy Warhol

Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.

Andy Warhol

I think it would be great to make a $2 million or $3 million art movie where nobody would really have to go to it. I thought that would be a good project to work on . . . do something really artistic.

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

Pop art is about liking things.

Andy Warhol

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

Andy Warhol

Good business is the best art of all.

Andy Warhol

I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

Andy Warhol

Land really is the best art.

Andy Warhol

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Andy Warhol

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

Andy Warhol

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

Andy Warhol

Art is what you can get away with.

Andy Warhol

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Andy Warhol

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

Andy Warhol

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.

Andy Warhol

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Andy Warhol

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'

Andrew O'Hagan

Interviewing is not a democratic art.

Andrew O'Hagan

A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.

Andrew O'Hagan

Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp

Andrew O'Hagan

I've been asked which of the other arts novel-writing is most like, and I have come to believe it is acting. Of course, in terms of pattern it can be like music, in terms of structure it can be like painting, but the job to me is most like acting.

Andrew Schneider

There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating.

Andrew Schneider

There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts - a sense of wonder.

Andre Holland

I definitely want to work with people who are artists and who are interested in being their best version of themselves.

Andre Benjamin

But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.