An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
– Andy Warhol
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
– Andy Warhol
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
– Andy Warhol
During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.
– Andy Warhol
Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.
– Andy Warhol
Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.
– Andy Warhol
I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.
– Andy Warhol
I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.
– Andy Warhol
I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.
– Andy Warhol
I like boring things.
– Andy Warhol
I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.
– Andy Warhol
I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so American.
– Andy Warhol
I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.
– Andy Warhol
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.'
– Andy Warhol
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
– Andy Warhol
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.
– Andy Warhol
I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!
– Andy Warhol
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
– Andy Warhol
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.
– Andy Warhol
I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.
– Andy Warhol
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.
– Andy Warhol
It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.
– Andy Warhol
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.
– Andy Warhol
Land really is the best art.
– Andy Warhol
My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.
– Andy Warhol
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.
– 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.
– Andy Warhol
When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.
– Andy Warhol
It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true: In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous.
– Andy Warhol
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
– Andy Warhol
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
– Andy Warhol
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.
– Andy Warhol
Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
– Andy Warhol
I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
– Andy Warhol
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.
– Andy Warhol
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.
– Andy Warhol
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.