Andy Warhol quotes

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

— Andy Warhol

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

— Andy Warhol

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

— Andy Warhol

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

— Andy Warhol

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

— 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.”

— 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

“Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.”

— Andy Warhol

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

— 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 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

“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

“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

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

— Andy Warhol

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

— Andy Warhol

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

— Andy Warhol

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

— 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

“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

“I like boring things.”

— Andy Warhol

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

— Andy Warhol

“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.”

— Andy Warhol

“I am a deeply superficial person.”

— Andy Warhol

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

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

— 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

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

— Andy Warhol

“It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.”

— Andy Warhol

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

— Andy Warhol

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