An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

Nutty people are always writing me. I always think I must be on some nutty mailing list.

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.

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

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.

Edward Smith: What do you think is the characteristic of a really nice person? Some people you obviously do like more than others. Andy Warhol: Ummm, well, if they talk a lot. ES: What, and don't make you talk? AW: Yeah, yes, that's a really nice person.

I don’t know anybody who doesn’t have a fantasy. Everybody must have a fantasy.