Quotes from Andy Warhol

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

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

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.

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

A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good.

I want to be a machine.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

I want to die with my blue jeans on.

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.

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'

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.

It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way.

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.

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 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.

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.

Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad.

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

People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television -- you don't feel anything.

The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

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

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

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