Andy Warhol
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.Collection: Money
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.Collection: Best
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.Collection: Business
Art is what you can get away with.Collection: Art
We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.Collection: Age
I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?Collection: Funny
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?Collection: Movies
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.Collection: Famous
In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.Collection: Famous
I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'Collection: Famous
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.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Home
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.Collection: Time
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.Collection: Art
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.Collection: Art
Art? That's a man's name.Collection: Art
Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.Collection: Business
Land really is the best art.Collection: Nature
My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.Collection: Famous
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.Collection: Movies
I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.Collection: Home
If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.Collection: Art
People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal.Collection: Movies
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.Collection: Great
Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?Collection: Change
I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.Collection: Home
I always hear myself saying, 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about.Collection: Beauty
When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.Collection: Relationship
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.Collection: Learning
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.Collection: Art
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 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.'
Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.
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.
It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.
Checks aren't money.
I think Chris Burden is terrific. I really do.
The clothes of Courreges are so nice.
I've been invited to the White House about five times. I think the greatest thing would be if they actually invited everybody to the White House every night... they'd just take about 500 people a night. Everybody would just love this country because it's so thrilling to go there. It really is.
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.
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 think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.
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.
When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.
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.
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.
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
I want to die with my blue jeans on.
I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.
Everyone needs a fantasy.