Andy Warhol
I love Los Angeles, and I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.
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 think everybody should like everybody.
Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
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.
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 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 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.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love.
I like boring things.
Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
I am a deeply superficial person.
I want to be a machine.
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.
I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike.
I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.
Sociological critics are waste makers.
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.
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.
I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.
I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.
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 used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.
If you wear a wig, everybody notices. But if you then dye the wig, people notice the dye.
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.Collection: Art
The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that willCollection: Inspirational
The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.Collection: Inspirational
Perception precedes reality.Collection: Reality
When you stop wanting something, you get it.Collection: Pop Art
People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.Collection: People
You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.Collection: Average
Look poor, think rich.Collection: Philosophy
I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.Collection: Essence
I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I dieCollection: Heaven
Everything will be art and nothing will be art, because everything, as I believe, already is.Collection: Art
I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up.Collection: Shut Up
Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.Collection: Change
It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.Collection: Thinking
Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.Collection: Thinking
I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.Collection: Art
I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.Collection: Smart
The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.Collection: Teacher
I can't bear to let all this beautiful talk go by. Everybody says... fantastic things. People are always putting it down as an invasion of privacy, but I think everyone should be bugged all the time... bugged and photographed.Collection: Beautiful
Money has a certain kind of amnesty.Collection: Amnesty
[My vision of America is] a good vision. Actually the best is on TV. I wanted to shoot all the pictures off the TV. No one would have known the difference.Collection: Differences
I want everybody to think alike. I think everybody should be a machine.Collection: Thinking