Quotes from Andy Warhol

When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can't believe that people are still pregnant.

Making money is art. And working is art. And good business is the best art.

If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not. I guess it's for your own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is where having them won't make you go crazy.

Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.

Kiss me with your eyes.

Just because people throw it out and don't have any use for it, doesn't mean it's garbage.

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets

I think pot should be legal. I don't smoke it, but I like the smell of it.

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

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

I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.

The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can't be on your own, wich is always so much better.

You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.

You know it's ART, when the check clears.

I always notice flowers.

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

Edward Smith: What do you think is the characteristic of a really nice person? Some people you obviously do like more than others. Andy Warhol: Ummm, well, if they talk a lot. ES: What, and don't make you talk? AW: Yeah, yes, that's a really nice person.

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. Andy Warhol

Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it.

Security breeds stagnation.

People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.

Everything is more glamorous when you do it in bed anyway.

I believe in low light and trick mirrors. I believe in plastic surgery.

Whenever I'm interested in something, I know the timing's off, because I'm always interested in the right thing at the wrong time. I should just be getting interested after I'm not interested any more.