Quotes from Andy Warhol

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

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-ordinary.

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 like boring things.

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

I want to die with my blue jeans on.

Checks aren't money.

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.

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

Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that.

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.

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

Wasting money puts you in a real party mood.

Money has a certain kind of amnesty.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.

I never met a pet I didn't like.

Look poor, think rich.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

I think kids should go to high school until they're 30. No, really, because people are staying younger now and there's nothing to do. If you stayed longer, then it would be really great.

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

I'm really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.