Quotes from Andy Warhol

What's great about this country is 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. 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.

You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

I am a deeply superficial person.

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don't look and it's magic

Everyone winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.

If everyone isn't beautiful, then no one is.

I always think about what it means to wear eyeglasses. When you get used to glasses you don't know how far you could really see. I think about all the people before eyeglasses were invented. It must have been weird because everyone was seeing in different ways according to how bad their eyes were. Now, eyeglasses standardize everyone's vision to 20-20. That's an example of everyone becoming more alike. Everyone could be seeing at different levels if it weren't for glasses.

Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.

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.

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

I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts.

I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.

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.

everything has it's beauty but not everyone sees it

I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

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.

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

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

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

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

Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, I knew he loved me when de didn't come in my mouth.

People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there.