Andy Warhol Quotes

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.

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

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.

When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.

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

Sociological critics are waste makers.

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

Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

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

Art is what you can get away with.

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

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 think it would be terrific if everybody was alike.

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

I want to be a machine.

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.

When you stop wanting something, you get it.