Andy Warhol Quotes

I think being a little nuts is helpful.

If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.

... the genius never makes anything new, but always something that is just different, and the average talents provide him the possibility within which his genius condenses into achievements.

Young people don't even consider that it's a good idea to be out on the fringe, which is where good ideas come from.

The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.

If someone asks me what inspires me, I always say, "That which is missing," because I don't want to copy everything that's already happening. I feel like when you copy, you blend in, and when you blend in, you get lost.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Creative people are often considered crazy but I believe crazy can be a good thing.

I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.

I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum.

It's important to have people who will say to you that you're really off the beaten track.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

I do strive to find projects that are trying to carve out some new space. I enjoy projects that leap away from the crowd a little bit.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.

Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.

I like to do something different that people don't expect. That's what I've always been about, in everything I do.

I like being unconventional.