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.

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

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.'

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

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.

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

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

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

I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.

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

Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.

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

Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don't know whether I'm alive or whether I died. I wasn't afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn't feel fear. But I am afraid. I don't understand why.

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

I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.

So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.

I like boring things.

I think everybody should like everybody.

I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

Sociological critics are waste makers.

I've been invited to the White House about five times. I think the greatest thing would be if they actually invited everybody to the White House every night... they'd just take about 500 people a night. Everybody would just love this country because it's so thrilling to go there. It really is.

I think they should have movies in restaurants. I can't believe that so many people get together just to sit there. It's so abstract... isn't it abstract? What are these people sitting here watching?

I think kids should go to high school until they're 30. No, really, because people are staying younger now and there's nothing to do. If you stayed longer, then it would be really great.

I went to vote once, but I got too scared. I couldn't decide whom to vote for.

If you wear a wig, everybody notices. But if you then dye the wig, people notice the dye.

Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil - of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them and tape-record them. But I didn't think of myself as evil - just realistic.

Checks aren't money.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too.

I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike.

People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal.

I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.

I like to work when I'm not working - do something that may not be considered work, but to me it's work. Getting exercise by going to the grocery store.

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.

I think Chris Burden is terrific. I really do.

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

I want to be a machine.

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

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

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 want to die with my blue jeans on.

Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.

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.

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

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

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

My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.