Andy Warhol

As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.

I never fall apart, because I never fall together.

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

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

I just do art because I'm ugly and there's nothing else for me to do.

People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen 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. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television.

It's not what you are that counts, it's what they think you are.

I like to be the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place. Being the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place is worth it because something interesting always happens.

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

I like boring things.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, 'So what.' That's one of my favorite things to say. So what. 'My mother didn't love me.' So what. 'My husband won't ball me.' So what. 'I'm a success but I'm still alone.' So what. I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

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

I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.

People should fall in love with their eyes closed.

I told Jack I loved Body Heat. Because he's out here in the sticks and so he doesn't see anything. I said it was a real hot movie. He kept asking about the girl, Kathleen Turner, and I said that she'd never be remembered.

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.

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

I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.