Quotes By Andy Warhol

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

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.

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 never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

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.

In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

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.

I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous."

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

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.

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

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.

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.