Andy Warhol Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• I was trying to think the other day about what you do now in America if you want to be successful. Before, you were dependable and wore a good suit. Looking around, I guess that today you have to do all the same things but not wear a good suit. I guess that's all it is. Think rich. Look poor.

  Andy Warhol

  Fashion, Work, Successful

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.116, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can't believe that people are still pregnant.

  Andy Warhol

  Believe, Pregnancy, People

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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

  Teenage, Mean, Thinking

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• In the early days of film, fans used to idolize a whole star - they would take one star and love everything about that star ... Today people can idolize a star in one area and forget about him in another. A big rock star might sell millions and millions of records, but then if he makes a bad movie ... forget it.

  Andy Warhol

  Stars, Rocks, People

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• If I had gone ahead and died ten years ago, I'd probably be a cult figure today.

  Andy Warhol

  Years, Gone, Today

  Andy Warhol (1990). “POPism: The Warhol '60s”, Harvest Books

• My image is a statement of the symbols of the harsh, impersonal products and brash materialistic objects on which America is built today. It is a projection of everything that can be bought and sold, and practical but impermanent symbols that sustain us.

  Andy Warhol

  America, Today, Materialistic

  Andy Warhol, Annette Michelson, B. H. D. Buchloh (2001). “Andy Warhol”, p.37, MIT Press

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