I am a deeply superficial person.”
- Andy Warhol

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

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”
- Andy Warhol

People should fall in love with their eyes closed.”
- Andy Warhol

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.”
- Andy Warhol

Art is what you can get away with.”
- Andy Warhol

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.”
- Andy Warhol

I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.”
- Andy Warhol

I never fall apart, because I never fall together.”
- Andy Warhol

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting”
- Andy Warhol

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.”
- Andy Warhol

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”
- Andy Warhol

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.”
- Andy Warhol

I like to be the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place. Being the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place is worth it because something interesting always happens.”
- Andy Warhol

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

In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.”
- Andy Warhol

I'm not afraid to die; I just don't want to be there when it happens”
- 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.”
- Andy Warhol

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.”
- Andy Warhol

Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.”
- Andy Warhol

Everyone winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.”
- 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.”
- Andy Warhol

I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts.”
- Andy Warhol

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

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

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.”
- Andy Warhol

Most people in America think Art is a man's name.”
- Andy Warhol

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.”
- Andy Warhol

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.”
- Andy Warhol

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

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.”
- Andy Warhol

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.”
- Andy Warhol

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.”
- Andy Warhol

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

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

I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”
- Andy Warhol

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell? ”
- Andy Warhol

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

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.”
- Andy Warhol

I’m bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is “In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.”
- 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.”
- Andy Warhol

I’ve decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.”
- Andy Warhol

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.”
- Andy Warhol

In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.”
- Andy Warhol

Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?”
- Andy Warhol

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

Land really is the best art.”
- Andy Warhol

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”
- Andy Warhol

My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person.”
- Andy Warhol

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.”
- Andy Warhol

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.”
- Andy Warhol

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.”
- Andy Warhol

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.”
- Andy Warhol

Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”
- Andy Warhol

The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it’s much more exciting.”
- Andy Warhol

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.”
- Andy Warhol

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.”
- Andy Warhol

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.’ ”
- Andy Warhol

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. ”
- Andy Warhol