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.
— Andy Warhol
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 never think that people die. They just go to department stores.
In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
Land really is the best art.
I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.
I like boring things.
Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
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.
When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.
During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.
It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.
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.
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'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 have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.
Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.
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.
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 always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.
I am a deeply superficial person.
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
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.
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.'
I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
