Andy Warhol

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.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

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.

The interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me to say and I’ll repeat them after him. I think that would be so great because I’m so empty I just can’t think of anything to say.

When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people.

I am a deeply superficial person.

I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.

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

I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.

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.'

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.

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

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

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

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

What I was actually trying to do in my early movies was show how people can meet other people and what they can do and what they can say to each other. That was the whole idea: two people getting acquainted.

During the '60s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered. I think that once you see emotions from a certain angle you can never think of them as real again. That's what more or less has happened to me. I don't really know if I was ever capable of love, but after the '60s I never thought in terms of 'love' again.

Believe me... I've made a career out of being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. That's one thing... I really do know about.