Andy Warhol Quotes

Look poor, think rich.

I think anybody can take a good picture. My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous. It's being in the right place at the wrong time.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

I wake up every morning. I open my eyes and think: here we go again.

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.

I always think I don't do the first one good, so I try to do it more.

I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is.

Land really is the best art.

The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.

I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don't want to get too close; I don't like to touch things.

Success is when the checks don’t bounce.

The nicer I am, the more people think I'm lying.

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.

I like boring things.

When you work with people who misunderstand you, instead of getting transmissions, you get transmutations, and that's much more interesting in the long run.

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

I want to die with my blue jeans on.

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

Most people in America think Art is a man's name.

Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.

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

The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it’s a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor.

Day after day I look in the mirror and I still see something

Everything is more glamorous when you do it in bed anyway.

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

I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.

But I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party

Fashion is more art than art is

Rodeo Drive is a giant butterscotch sundae.

Pop art is about liking things.

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 never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.

Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, "I knew he loved me when de didn't come in my mouth.

The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.

Security breeds stagnation.

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.

If everybody's not a beauty, then nobody is

You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.

One person in the 60s fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love

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

The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will

Switzerland is my favorite place now, because it's so - nothing. There is absolutely nothing to do.

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

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

I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art

Wasting money puts you in a real party mood.

Two people kissing always look like fish.