Andy Warhol
I'd rather do new stuff. The old stuff is better to talk about than to see. It always sounds better than it really is.Collection: Sound
Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.Collection: Art
I really hate heights. I always like to live on the first floor.Collection: Hate
I think every painting should be the same size and the same color so they're all interchangeable and nobody thinks they have a better painting or a worse painting.... Besides even when the subject is different, people want the same painting.Collection: Thinking
I thought that young people had more problems than old people...Then I looked around and saw that everybody who looked young had young problems and that everybody who looked old had old problems.Collection: People
New York restaurants are about selling atmospheres.Collection: New York
I love it when you ask actors, 'What are you Doing now?' and they say 'I'm between roles'. To be living 'life between roles' that's my favoriteCollection: Live Life
I know a girl who just looks at her face in the medicine cabinet mirror and never looks below her shoulders, and she's four or five hundred pounds but she doesn't see all that, she just sees a beautiful face and therefore she thinks she's a beauty. And therefore, I think she's a beauty, too, because I usually accept people on the basis of their self-images, because their self-images have more to do with the way they think than their objective-images do.Collection: Beautiful
After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex. Of course, for some people it isn't work because they need the exercise and they've got the energy for the sex and the sex gives them even more energy. Some people get energy from sex and some people lose energy from sex. I have found that it's too much work. But if you have the time for it, and if you need that exercise-then you should do it.Collection: Sex
What I was actually trying to do in my early movies was show how people can meet other people and what they can do and what they can say to each other. That was the whole idea: two people getting acquainted.Collection: Ideas
The only time I ever want to be something is outside a party so I can get in.Collection: Party
After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex.Collection: Sex
If I had gone ahead and died ten years ago, I'd probably be a cult figure today.Collection: Years
The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones . . .Collection: Self
I used to cut out paper dolls.Collection: Cutting
What we're all looking for is someone who doesn't live there, just pays for it.Collection: Pay
I think it would be great to make a $2 million or $3 million art movie where nobody would really have to go to it. I thought that would be a good project to work on . . . do something really artistic.Collection: Art
I like church. It's empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York.Collection: Beautiful
Looking younger and being younger is the adolescence idea.Collection: Ideas
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: Talking
James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time.Collection: Beautiful
When the Woolworth's-Hot-Fudge-Sundae switch goes on, then I know I really have something.Collection: Ice Cream
Remember, they've never seen you before in their life.Collection: Remember
In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.Collection: Future
I always think I don't do the first one good, so I try to do it more.Collection: Thinking
The best museum is Bloomingdales.Collection: Museums
I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.Collection: Dancer
I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.Collection: Beautiful
The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.Collection: Machines
I love the English language just like I love all American things. But I confess that I don't feel confident using complex sentences or big words, hence my famous minimally expressive style - all the "gees" and laconic answers to interviewers. Most of all, I have developed listening as an art form.Collection: Art
The moment you label something, you take a step-I mean, you can never go back again to seeing it unlabelled.Collection: Mean
During the '60s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered. I think that once you see emotions from a certain angle you can never think of them as real again. That's what more or less has happened to me. I don't really know if I was ever capable of love, but after the '60s I never thought in terms of 'love' again.Collection: Real
Pop art is about liking things.Collection: Art
Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.Collection: Sex
Don't think about making art, just get it done.Collection: Art
Day after day I look in the mirror and I still see somethingCollection: Mirrors
When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be a boss. A boss who could tell me what to do, because that makes everything easy when you're working.Collection: Happiness
I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece.Collection: Waiting
I really don't care that much about "Beauties." What I really like are Talkers. To me, good talkers are beautiful because good talk is what I love. The word itself shows why I like Talkers better than Beauties, why I tape more than I film. It's not "talkies." Talkers are doing something.Collection: Care
Fashion is more art than art is.Collection: Fashion
I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die.Collection: Heaven
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
The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it’s much more exciting.Collection: Artist
If you’re not trying to be real, you don’t have to get it right. That’s art.Collection: Real
Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don’t have it.Collection: Romance
What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.Collection: Country
I don’t know where the artificial stops and the real starts.Collection: Real
There should be a course in first grade on love.Collection: Firsts
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