Andy Warhol Quotes

The Palace is a good theater, you can see from everywhere.

Pop art is for everyone.

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

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

I always notice flowers.

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

Two people kissing always look like fish.

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.

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

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

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

I can't bear to let all this beautiful talk go by. Everybody says... fantastic things. People are always putting it down as an invasion of privacy, but I think everyone should be bugged all the time... bugged and photographed.

Kiss me with your eyes.

Art is what you can get away with.

I'm confused about who the news belongs to. I always have it in my head that if your name's in the news, then the news should be paying you. Because it's your news and they're taking it and selling it as their product. ...If people didn't give the news their news, and if everybody kept their news to themselves, the news wouldn't have any news.

I'm seeking out a new way to live and if it's surfing, that's the way I'll do it. I'll be a surfer for the rest of my life.

Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.

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

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.

When you stop wanting something, you get it.

I've never made the separation between, say, the museum and the hardware store. I mean, I enjoy both of them, and I want to combine the two.

The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is

I never met a pet I didn't like.

I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

I wish I hadn't made so many images.

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones . . .

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

Buying is more American than thinking, and I'm as American as they come.

I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it. An artist is somebody 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 love it when you ask actors, 'What are you Doing now?' and they say 'I'm between roles'. To be living 'life between roles' that's my favorite

I think video is the best market. When the cassette market comes out, if you just do movies that nobody else can do, that'll be the new way.

Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see. So the fantasy corners of America seem so atmospheric because you 've pieced them together from scenes in movies and music and lines from books.

If you're traveling for five years or something like that, you're going somewhere. But five years are being used up, and you don't have to do anything. You just sit on the plane. That might make time go really fast.

Coffee never used to keep me up at night, now it does.

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.

As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic.

The only time I ever want to be something is outside a party so I can get in.

Think rich, look poor.

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.

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

The girls in California were probably prettier in a standard sense than the New York girls--blonder and in better health, I guess; but I still preferred the way the girls in New York looked--stranger and more neurotic (a girl always looked more beautiful and fragile when she was about to have a nervous breakdown).

I used to drink Coke all the time. It was so good. It gives you a lot of energy.

Traveling makes time go fast. So maybe traveling in space will give people time.

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

I can't give parties. It's so hard. When I want to call somebody up for dinner they think I'm using them or something. I just can't stand it.