Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

We're all golden sunflowers inside.

Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?

Our heads are round so thought can change direction

To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.

To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.

Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.

None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.

When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.

The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can't understand.

Real love never fails, never fades, and the greatest expression of it is giving.

A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle in it, write notes in it, and I put pictures in it.

These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.

If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer.

You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't.

I remember my youth... the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men.

It's interesting to see how people bring different things to them. I think it comes down to the universal appeal of the Holmes-Watson that they can keep being discovered in different ways.

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

My father would say, 'Ronnie, you're going to be someone special. Whatever it is that you want to do, you're going to be the best in the world at it.'