Quotes By Andy Warhol

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.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

I am a deeply superficial person.

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

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

I like boring things.

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.

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

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

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

Land really is the best art.

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

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