Ani Laporga > Ani's Quotes

“People should fall in love with their eyes closed.”
― Andy Warhol

“As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.”
― Andy Warhol

“The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting”
― Andy Warhol

“I think everybody should be nice to everybody.”
― Andy Warhol

“Beauty is a sign of intelligence.”
― Andy Warhol

“Everybody must have a fantasy.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“Every song has a memory; every song has the ability to make or break your heart, shut down the heart, and open the eyes. But I’m afraid if you look at a thing long enough; it loses all of its meaning”
― Andy Warhol

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

“I like boring things.”
― Andy Warhol

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

“Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.”
― Andy Warhol

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

“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.”
― Andy Warhol

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

“The girls in California were probably prettier in a standard sense than the New York girls--blonder and in better health, I guess; but I still preferred the way the girls in New York looked--stranger and more neurotic (a girl always looked more beautiful and fragile when she was about to have a nervous breakdown).”
― Andy Warhol, POPism: The Warhol Sixties

“The world fascinates me.”
― Andy Warhol

“I’m really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts”
― Andy Warhol

“I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.”
― Andy Warhol

“I think pot should be legal. I don’t smoke it, but I like the smell of it.”
― Andy Warhol

“Edward Smith: What do you think is the characteristic of a really nice person? Some people you obviously do like more than others.
Andy Warhol: Ummm, well, if they talk a lot.
ES: What, and don't make you talk?
AW: Yeah, yes, that's a really nice person.”
― Andy Warhol