Quotes By Andy Warhol

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

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

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

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.

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'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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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.

Land really is the best art.

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

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

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.'

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.

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.

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.