Quotes from Andy Warhol

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

Sociological critics are waste makers.

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

I love Los Angeles, and I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don't know whether I'm alive or whether I died. I wasn't afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn't feel fear. But I am afraid. I don't understand why.

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is.

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that

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

They say that time change things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

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

My instinct about painting says, "If you don't think about it, it's right."

In the future everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes.

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

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.

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.