Andy Warhol

Art is what you can get away with.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love.

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.

I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.

I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.

I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.

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?

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.

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.'

I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.

I like boring things.

I think kids should go to high school until they're 30. No, really, because people are staying younger now and there's nothing to do. If you stayed longer, then it would be really great.

Sociological critics are waste makers.

If you wear a wig, everybody notices. But if you then dye the wig, people notice the dye.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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