Quotes from Andy Warhol

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

I like boring things.

I'm not afraid to die; I just don't want to be there when it happens

A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too.

Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil - of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them and tape-record them. But I didn't think of myself as evil - just realistic.

I've been invited to the White House about five times. I think the greatest thing would be if they actually invited everybody to the White House every night... they'd just take about 500 people a night. Everybody would just love this country because it's so thrilling to go there. It really is.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

I went to vote once, but I got too scared. I couldn't decide whom to vote for.

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.'

If you wear a wig, everybody notices. But if you then dye the wig, people notice the dye.

I think Chris Burden is terrific. I really do.

I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike.

The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it's a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor.

Remember, they've never seen you before in their life.

I'm seeking out a new way to live and if it's surfing, that's the way I'll do it. I'll be a surfer for the rest of my life.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.

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

The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.

In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. My mother didn't love me. So what. My husband won't ball me. So what. I'm a success but I'm still alone. So what. I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.

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

And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.