Quotes from Andy Warhol

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.

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.

It would be great to be super-human, to give the fans just what they want.

Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?

I am a deeply superficial person.

Some day each of us will be famous for fifteen minutes.

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Most people in America think Art is a man's name.

Art? That's a man's name.

A friend of mine always says, 'Women love me for the man I'm not.'

I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.

Everyone needs a fantasy.

The clothes of Courreges are so nice.

I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

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.

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.

When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.

Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world.

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 really like to work a lot. It makes time go by fast.

I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.