They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
I am a deeply superficial person.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
Land really is the best art.
Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
Art is what you can get away with.
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
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.
If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.
I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.
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 want to die with my blue jeans on.
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.'
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
I think everybody should like everybody.
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.
Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.
I love Los Angeles, and I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.
I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordinary.
Everyone needs a fantasy.
When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.
Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.
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.
If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.
I like boring things.
Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.
When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.
The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.
Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.
I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.
My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.
If you wear a wig, everybody notices. But if you then dye the wig, people notice the dye.
Art? That's a man's name.
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.
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.
My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.
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.
I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike.
I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.
It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.
Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.
