Andy Warhol

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

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

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.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I am a deeply superficial person.

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.

I like boring things.

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

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

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

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.

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