Christie Thomas > Christie's Quotes

“I always think about what it means to wear eyeglasses. When you get used to glasses you don't know how far you could really see. I think about all the people before eyeglasses were invented. It must have been weird because everyone was seeing in different ways according to how bad their eyes were. Now, eyeglasses standardize everyone's vision to 20-20. That's an example of everyone becoming more alike. Everyone could be seeing at different levels if it weren't for glasses.”
― Andy Warhol

“What's great about this country is America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. 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. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good.”
― Andy Warhol

“I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts.”
― Andy Warhol

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

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

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

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

“People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.”
― 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

“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.”
― Andy Warhol

“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.”
― Andy Warhol

“I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment'.”
― 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

“Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?”
― Andy Warhol

“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.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can’t see…So the fantasy corners of America…you’ve pieced them together from scenes in movies and music and lines from books. And you live in your dream America that you’ve custom-made from art and schmaltz and emotions just as much as you live in your real one.”
― Andy Warhol

“everything has it's beauty but not everyone sees it”
― Andy Warhol

“So today if you see a person who looks like your teenage fantasy walking down the street, it's probably not your fantasy, but someone who had the same fantasy as you and decided instead of getting it or being it, to look like it, and so he went to the store and bought the look that you both like.
So forget it. Just think about all the James Deans and what it means.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

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

“The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.”
― Andy Warhol

“Security breeds stagnation.”
― Andy Warhol

“Whenever I’m interested in something, I know the timing’s off, because I’m always interested in the right thing at the wrong time. I should just be getting interested after I’m not interested any more.”
― Andy Warhol

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.”
― Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol: In His Own Words

“Art is what you can get away with.”
― Andy Warhol

“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“I never fall apart, because I never fall together.”
― Andy Warhol

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