Andy Warhol Quotes

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.

I have the feeling that everybody was waiting for me to die so they could rediscover me. Then they found out I'm not dead yet, so they are rediscovering me while I'm still alive.

Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

I don't give a toss about being remembered after my death.

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

I don't care much whether people remember me or not. If people remember, well and good. If they don't remember, it's alright - I'm dead anyway.

Everyone dies, and I am not, you know, I don't believe in the Homeric idea that, you know, immortality comes by, you know, having odes sung about you over the centuries, you know?

I would just like to be remembered.

Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.

Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth, not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us.

My work is known by too few people for me to be remembered as a writer - that is, beyond those dedicated souls (bless them) who have followed the oeuvre through its various stages. To be realistic, when they and the last of my friends have died, I doubt I shall be remembered at all.

Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead.

I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old!

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.