Andy Warhol Quotes

...the more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.

Whenever I’m interested in something, I know the timing’s off, because I’m always interested in the right thing at the wrong time. I should just be getting interested after I’m not interested any more.

I never understand how the lipstick business goes on because lipstick lasts forever.

I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.

I'm starting to think that the men are the ones who should wear the big jewelry because they can defend it better when it's robbed. They should wear the big diamonds. You can show how much of a man you are, because the bigger the diamond, the stronger you have to be to defend it.

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. 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.'

Everything is more glamorous when you do it in bed anyway.

I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordina ry.

If you can convince yourself that you look fabulous, you can save yourself the trouble of primping.

I want to die with my blue jeans on.

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

New things are always better than old things.

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.

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

During the '60s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered. I think that once you see emotions from a certain angle you can never think of them as real again. That's what more or less has happened to me. I don't really know if I was ever capable of love, but after the '60s I never thought in terms of 'love' again.

But I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party

I am a deeply superficial person.

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

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.

I like to work when I'm not working - do something that may not be considered work, but to me it's work. Getting exercise by going to the grocery store.

I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me.

After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex. Of course, for some people it isn't work because they need the exercise and they've got the energy for the sex and the sex gives them even more energy. Some people get energy from sex and some people lose energy from sex. I have found that it's too much work. But if you have the time for it, and if you need that exercise-then you should do it.

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.

Pop art is about liking things.

Some people spend their entire lives thinking about one particular famous person. They pick one person who's famous, and they dwell on him or her. They devote almost their entire consciousness to thinking about this person they've never even met, or maybe met once. If you ask any famous person about the kind of mail they get, you'll find that almost every one of them has at least one person who's obsessed with them and writes constantly. It feels so strange to think that someone is spending their whole time thinking about you.

Fashion is more art than art is

I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back.

I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.