Quotes By Andy Warhol

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

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.

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 am a deeply superficial person.

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

I like boring things.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

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

The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.

Land really is the best art.

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

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

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.

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.'

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 think that people die. They just go to department stores.

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.

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.

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.

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.