Andy Warhol Quotes

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

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

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.’

Exposure and attention make a work famous – the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.

I always hear myself saying, ‘She’s a beauty!’ or ‘He’s a beauty!’ or ‘What a beauty!’ but I never know what I’m talking about.

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

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

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

So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.

I wake up every morning. I open my eyes and think: here we go again.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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