I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
—Andy Warhol
Topics: Perspective
Sex is the biggest nothing of all time
—Andy Warhol
Topics: Sex
Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that
—Andy Warhol
Topics: Individuality
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.
—Andy Warhol
Topics: Artists, Art, Arts
People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it’s the way things happen to you in life that’s unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it’s like watching television—you don’t feel anything.
—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
Topics: Work
Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
—Andy Warhol
The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.
—Andy Warhol
Topics: Fame
Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they’ll just have to learn how to be babies longer.
—Andy Warhol
Topics: Babies
It must be hard to be a model, because you’d want to be like the photograph of you, and you can’t ever look that way.
—Andy Warhol
Topics: Reality
I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell?
—Andy Warhol
Topics: Humor
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
—Andy Warhol
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.
—Andy Warhol
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
—Andy Warhol
Topics: Birth
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. Everybody has their own America, and then they have the pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can’t see.
—Andy Warhol
Topics: America
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
Topics: Consumerism
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.
—Andy Warhol
Topics: Business, Art
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
Topics: Love, Romance
I am a deeply superficial person.
—Andy Warhol
Topics: People
Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
—Andy Warhol
Topics: Attention
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
Topics: Death, Dying
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
Topics: Living, Life
Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol
Topics: Humankind, Sex
They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
—Andy Warhol
Employees make the best dates. You don’t have to pick them up and they’re always tax-deductible.
—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
Topics: Fame
Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to be, and the way some women still actually want to be. Drags are ambulatory archives of ideal moviestar womanhood. They perform a documentary service, usually consecrating their lives to keeping the glittering alternative alive and available for (not-too-close) inspection.
—Andy Warhol
Topics: Women
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