Quotes By Andy Warhol

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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