Andy Warhol

Everyone needs a fantasy.

I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordinary.

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.

The clothes of Courreges are so nice.

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.

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

Art? That's a man's name.

I am a deeply superficial person.

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

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

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

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.'

When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.

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.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

Land really is the best art.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Art is what you can get away with.

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

I always hear myself saying, 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about.

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