Andy Warhol

I like to work when I'm not working - do something that may not be considered work, but to me it's work. Getting exercise by going to the grocery store.

They always say time changes things but you actually have to change them yourself.

I want to die with my blue jeans on

Human beings are born solitary but everywhere they are in chains daisy chains of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms often courageous sometimes ridicilous always strange.

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don't know whether I'm alive or whether I died. I wasn't afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn't feel fear. But I am afraid. I don't understand why.

Everyone needs a fantasy.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work," because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

I like boring things.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat or in films case run on manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.

In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

I went to vote once, but I got too scared. I couldn't decide whom to vote for.

Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil - of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them and tape-record them. But I didn't think of myself as evil - just realistic.

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button.

When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.

I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.

The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

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.

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous."

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.

Just because people throw it out and don't have any use for it, doesn't mean it's garbage.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Art is what you can get away with.

If you can convince yourself that you look fabulous you can save yourself the trouble of primping.

I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.

I think they should have movies in restaurants. I can't believe that so many people get together just to sit there. It's so abstract... isn't it abstract? What are these people sitting here watching?

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work', because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

Employees make the best dates. You dont have to pick them up and theyre always tax deductible.

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say "figment."

I am a deeply superficial person.

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

I love Los Angeles, and I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

Pop art is about liking things.

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.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Art? That's a man's name.

Pop art is for everyone.

People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don't look and it's magic.

I just do art because I'm ugly and there's nothing else for me to do.

Land really is the best art.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordinary.

The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

Peoples fantasies are what give them problems. If you didnt have fantasies you wouldnt have problems because youd just take whatever was there.

I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.

Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.

People should fall in love with their eyes closed.

If you wear a wig, everybody notices. But if you then dye the wig, people notice the dye.

When people are ready to they change. They never do it before then and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You cant make them change if they dont want to just like when they do want to you cant stop them.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

I think pot should be legal I don't smoke it, but I like the smell of it.