Andy Warhol Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

  Andy Warhol

  Money, People, Suggestions

• Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Machines, Want

  Eric Shanes, Andy Warhol (1991). “Warhol”, Gramercy Books

• I think every painting should be the same size and the same color so they're all interchangeable and nobody thinks they have a better painting or a worse painting.... Besides even when the subject is different, people want the same painting.

  Andy Warhol

  Thinking, Color, People

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.162, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me.

  Andy Warhol

  Thinking, Able, Painting

  Andy Warhol (1997). “After the Party: Andy Warhol Works, 1956-1986”, Lund Humphries Publishers

• I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.

  Andy Warhol

  Artist, People, Sculpture

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

• If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Looks, Want

  Quoted in Free Press (Los Angeles), 17 Mar. 1967

• 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

• The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.

  Andy Warhol

  Machines, Want, Way

  Peter Kattenberg, Andy Warhol (2001). “Andy Warhol, Priest: "The Last Supper Comes in Small, Medium, and Large"”, p.14, BRILL

• So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.

  Andy Warhol

  Stars, People, Matter

• My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.' As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong. And the more you decide about, the more wrong it gets.

  Andy Warhol

  Thinking, Painting, Instinct

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.162, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I read an article on me once that described my machine-method of silk-screen copying and painting: 'What a bold and audacious solution, what depths of the man are revealed in this solution!' What does that mean?

  Andy Warhol

  Mean, Men, Copying

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