Andy Warhol
The President has so much good publicity potential that hasn't been exploited. He should just sit down one day and make a list of all the things that people are embarrassed to do that they shouldn't be embarrassed to do, and then do them all on television.Collection: People
Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?Collection: Art
Uptown is for people who have already done something. Downtown is where they’re doing something now. I live uptown but I love downtown.Collection: People
You should always have a product that has nothing to do with who you are or what people think about you... so that you never start thinking that your product is you, or your fame or your aura.Collection: Thinking
I was trying to think the other day about what you do now in America if you want to be successful. Before, you were dependable and wore a good suit. Looking around, I guess that today you have to do all the same things but not wear a good suit. I guess that's all it is. Think rich. Look poor.Collection: Fashion
My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street.Collection: Cities
It's funny when people don't know you and they meet you for the first time and think you're so great. When fans know you for more than three or four times the magic is gone.Collection: Thinking
It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way.Collection: Reality
Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that seems to be what is happening.Collection: Thinking
Free countries are great, because you can actually sit in somebody else's space for a while and pretend you're a part of it. You can sit in the Plaza Hotel and you don't even have to live there. You can just sit and watch the people go by.Collection: Country
I don't feel like I get germs when I hold money. Money has a certain kind of amnesty. I feel, when I'm holding money, that the dollar bill has no more germs on it than my hands do. When I pass my hand over money, it becomes perfectly clean to me. I don't know where it's been - who's touched it and with what - but that's all erased the moment I touch it.Collection: Hands
I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD BE BUGGED ALL THE TIME...BUGGED AND PHOTOGRAPHEDCollection: Thinking
You can be just as faithful to a place or a thing as you can to a person. A place can really make your heart skip a beat, especially if you have to take a plane to get there.Collection: Heart
Years later, I figured out why he (Ivan Karp) was such a successful art dealer-this may sound strange, but I believe it was because art was his second love. He seemed to love literature more, and he put the serious side of his nature into that...Some people are even better at their second love than their first, maybe because when they care too much, it freezes them, but knowing there's something they'd rather be doing gives them a certain freedom.Collection: Art
I don’t know anybody who doesn’t have a fantasy. Everybody must have a fantasy.Collection: Fantasy
I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me.Collection: Thinking
I'm confused about who the news belongs to. I always have it in my head that if your name's in the news, then the news should be paying you. Because it's your news and they're taking it and selling it as their product. ...If people didn't give the news their news, and if everybody kept their news to themselves, the news wouldn't have any news.Collection: Confused
I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.Collection: Forever
Two people kissing always look like fish.Collection: Kissing
I always think about what it means to wear eyeglasses. When you get used to glasses you don't know how far you could really see. I think about all the people before eyeglasses were invented. It must have been weird because everyone was seeing in different ways according to how bad their eyes were. Now, eyeglasses standardize everyone's vision to 20-20. That's an example of everyone becoming more alike. Everyone could be seeing at different levels if it weren't for glasses.Collection: Mean
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of artCollection: Art
I'm seeking out a new way to live and if it's surfing, that's the way I'll do it. I'll be a surfer for the rest of my life.Collection: Surfing
If everybody's not a beauty, then nobody isCollection: Ifs
Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it.Collection: People
An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.Collection: Art
People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like you're watching television -- you don't feel anything.Collection: Strong
People are always calling me a mirror and if a mirror looks into a mirror, what is there to see?Collection: Mirrors
Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see. So the fantasy corners of America seem so atmospheric because you 've pieced them together from scenes in movies and music and lines from books.Collection: Dream
Buying is more American than thinking, and I'm as American as they come.Collection: Thinking
Bad taste makes the day go by faster.Collection: Taste
Even beauties can be unattractive. If you catch a beauty in the wrong light at the right time, forget it. I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. I believe in plastic surgery.Collection: Believe
I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.Collection: Everyday
(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains.Collection: Believe
Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?Collection: People
One person in the 60s fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of loveCollection: Fascination
When I did my self-portrait, I left all the pimples out because you always should. Pimples are a temporary condition and they don't have anything to do with what you really look like. Always omit the blemishes-they're not part of the good picture you want.Collection: Self
I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.Collection: Believe
I've never made the separation between, say, the museum and the hardware store. I mean, I enjoy both of them, and I want to combine the two.Collection: Mean
If you can convince yourself that you look fabulous, you can save yourself the trouble of primping.Collection: Looks
People in uniform always look so great.Collection: People
Pop art is for everyone.Collection: Art
I will go to the Opening of Anything, including a Toilet SeatCollection: Toilet Seat
Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory: instead of fifteen minutes of fame, he will have fifteen centuries.Collection: Fifteen
All photography is Pop, and all photographers are crazy... they feel guilty since they don't have to do very much - just push a button.Collection: Photography
The world fascinates me.Collection: World
Rodeo Drive is a giant butterscotch sundae.Collection: Ice Cream
When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them. “A man is what he thinks about all day long.” [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. Aldous HuxleyCollection: Men
When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can't believe that people are still pregnant.Collection: Believe
When you do something exactly wrong, you always turn up something.Collection: Turns