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.

You could never be an adolescent if you don't look like one.

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

If there's ever a problem, I film it and it's no longer a problem. It's a film.

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.

I like church. It's empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York.

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.