Quotes by Andy Warhol
It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.
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.
My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.
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.
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.
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 think it would be terrific if everybody was alike.
When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.
I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
Land really is the best art.
So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.
Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.
I went to vote once, but I got too scared. I couldn't decide whom to vote for.
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?
If you wear a wig, everybody notices. But if you then dye the wig, people notice the dye.
I am a deeply superficial person.
I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.
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'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.
When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.
I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.
I think kids should go to high school until they're 30. No, really, because people are staying younger now and there's nothing to do. If you stayed longer, then it would be really great.
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
Sociological critics are waste makers.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love.