Quotes by Andy Warhol

"We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art."

"Art is what you can get away with."

"Land really is the best art."

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

"Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."

"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."

"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."

"Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too."

"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."

"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."

"In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."

"In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."

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

"People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal."

"It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger."

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

"I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs."

"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."

"I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?"

"Everyone needs a fantasy."

"My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person."

"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."

"If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art."

"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."

"Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."

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

"When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships."

"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."

"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."

"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible."

"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."

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

"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?"

"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."

"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'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'"

"I think they should have movies in restaurants. I can't believe that so many people get together just to sit there. It's so abstract... isn't it abstract? What are these people sitting here watching?"