Andy Warhol
My style was always to spread out rather than to move up.Collection: Moving
I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody.Collection: Artist
In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all the lighter things in life, which are the most important things, are put down.Collection: Clever
I wish I hadn't made so many images.Collection: Wish
Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.Collection: Art
I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back.Collection: Death
...after you stop wanting things is when having them won't make you go crazy. After you stop wanting them is when you can handle having them. Or before. But never during. If you get things when you really want them, you go crazy. Everything becomes distorted when something you really want is sitting in your lap.Collection: Crazy
The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.Collection: Humorous
My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. People are only glamorous if you don't see them. Like the movies used to make people years ago. There is something about people on screen that makes them so special; when you see them in person, they are so different and the whole illusion is gone.Collection: Years
Believe me... I've made a career out of being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. That's one thing... I really do know about.Collection: Believe
Traveling makes time go fast. So maybe traveling in space will give people time.Collection: Space
I loved working when I worked at commercial art and they told you what to do and how to do it and all you had to do was correct it and they'd say yes or no. The hard thing is when you have to dream up the tasteless things to do on your own.Collection: Dream
Everybody does the same thing over and over again. I like to do the same thing every day.Collection: Doe
I really like to work a lot. It makes time go by fast.Collection: Making Time
New things are always better than old things.Collection: Old Things
So many people have so many problems. When you think that health is wealth, you're so grateful just to be normal, more or less. Aren't you?Collection: Grateful
The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it’s a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor.Collection: Keys
Whenever I’m interested in something, I know the timing’s off, because I’m always interested in the right thing at the wrong time. I should just be getting interested after I’m not interested any more.Collection: Timing
So today if you see a person who looks like your teenage fantasy walking down the street, it's probably not your fantasy, but someone who had the same fantasy as you and decided instead of getting it or being it, to look like it, and so he went to the store and bought the look that you both like. So forget it. Just think about all the James Deans and what it means.Collection: Teenage
Pop art is a way of liking things.Collection: Art
Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad.Collection: Love
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-ordina ry.Collection: Trying
Reruns are my favorite things on TV.Collection: Favorites Things
My image is a statement of the symbols of the harsh, impersonal products and brash materialistic objects on which America is built today. It is a projection of everything that can be bought and sold, and practical but impermanent symbols that sustain us.Collection: America
Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Thinking
In the early days of film, fans used to idolize a whole star - they would take one star and love everything about that star ... Today people can idolize a star in one area and forget about him in another. A big rock star might sell millions and millions of records, but then if he makes a bad movie ... forget it.Collection: Stars
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.Collection: War
When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people.Collection: Funny
I get so tired of painting. I've been trying to give it up all the time, if we could just make a living out of movies or the newspaper business or something. It's so boring, painting the same picture over and over.Collection: Tired
You have to hang on in periods when your style isn't popular, because if it's good, it'll come back, and you'll be a recognized beauty once again.Collection: Style
Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to be, and the way some women still actually want to be. Drags are ambulatory archives of ideal moviestar womanhood. They perform a documentary service, usually consecrating their lives to keeping the glittering alternative alive and available for (not-too-close) inspection.Collection: Queens
Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button.Collection: Photography
Maybe the reason my memory is so bad is that I always do at least two things at once. It's easier to forget something you only half-did or quarter did.Collection: Happiness
If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not. I guess it's for our own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is when having them won't make you go crazy.Collection: Crazy
Every song has a memory; every song has the ability to make or break your heart, shut down the heart, and open the eyes. But I’m afraid if you look at a thing long enough; it loses all of its meaningCollection: Song
I never met a pet I didn't like.Collection: Pet
I think pot should be legal. I don’t smoke it, but I like the smell of it.Collection: Weed
Switzerland is my favorite place now, because it's so - nothing. There is absolutely nothing to do.Collection: Switzerland
Don't think about making art.Collection: Art
It would be great to be super-human, to give the fans just what they want.Collection: Giving
If everyone isn't beautiful, then no one is.Collection: Beautiful
Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.Collection: Funny
Business Art is the step that comes after Art.Collection: Art
I just [take pictures] because the camera is something to carry around in my pocket.Collection: Cameras
Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world.Collection: New York
After Wakefield Poole's films, mine are unnecessary and a bit naive, don't you think?Collection: Thinking
I'm a deeply superficial person.Collection: Superficial