Andy Warhol Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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

  Art, Business, Thinking

  Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) (1975) ch. 10

• After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex. Of course, for some people it isn't work because they need the exercise and they've got the energy for the sex and the sex gives them even more energy. Some people get energy from sex and some people lose energy from sex. I have found that it's too much work. But if you have the time for it, and if you need that exercise-then you should do it.

  Andy Warhol

  Sex, Exercise, People

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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

  People, Giving, Fantasy

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I'm confused about who the news belongs to. I always have it in my head that if your name's in the news, then the news should be paying you. Because it's your news and they're taking it and selling it as their product. ...If people didn't give the news their news, and if everybody kept their news to themselves, the news wouldn't have any news.

  Andy Warhol

  Confused, Names, People

• I get so tired of painting. I've been trying to give it up all the time, if we could just make a living out of movies or the newspaper business or something. It's so boring, painting the same picture over and over.

  Andy Warhol

  Tired, Giving, Trying

  Andy Warhol, Annette Michelson, B. H. D. Buchloh (2001). “Andy Warhol”, p.41, MIT Press

• I used to drink Coke all the time. It was so good. It gives you a lot of energy.

  Andy Warhol

  Giving, Energy, Coke

  Andy Warhol, Mark Francis, Mattjis Visser, Museum Kunst Palast (Düsseldorf, Germany), Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (2004). “Andy Warhol: the late work”, Prestel Publishing

• Traveling makes time go fast. So maybe traveling in space will give people time.

  Andy Warhol

  Space, People, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it. 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.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Believe, Thinking

• It would be great to be super-human, to give the fans just what they want.

  Andy Warhol

  Giving, Want, Fans

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I can't give parties. It's so hard. When I want to call somebody up for dinner they think I'm using them or something. I just can't stand it.

  Andy Warhol

  Party, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.

  Andy Warhol

  Funny, New York, Real

  Peter Kattenberg, Andy Warhol (2001). “Andy Warhol, Priest: "The Last Supper Comes in Small, Medium, and Large"”, p.84, BRILL

• Years later, I figured out why he (Ivan Karp) was such a successful art dealer-this may sound strange, but I believe it was because art was his second love. He seemed to love literature more, and he put the serious side of his nature into that...Some people are even better at their second love than their first, maybe because when they care too much, it freezes them, but knowing there's something they'd rather be doing gives them a certain freedom.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Believe, Successful

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