Andy Warhol

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered. I think that once you see emotions from a certain angle you can never think of them as real again. That's what more or less has happened to me. I don't really know if I was ever capable of love, but after the '60s I never thought in terms of 'love' again.

I don't see anything wrong with being alone, it feels great to me. People make a big thing about personal love. It doesn't have to be such a big thing. The same for living - people make a big thing about that too.

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface; of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.

My instinct about painting says, 'If you don't think about it, it's right.' As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong. And the more you decide about, the more wrong it gets.

Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.

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

I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.

Bad taste makes the day go by faster.

When you work with people who misunderstand you, instead of getting transmissions, you get transmutations, and that's much more interesting in the long run.

I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.

Most people in America think Art is a man's name.

You know it's art, when the check clears.

You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

Security breeds stagnation.

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.

I think someone should be able to do all my paintings for me.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.

When I did my self-portrait, I left all the pimples out because you always should. Pimples are a temporary condition and they don't have anything to do with what you really look like. Always omit the blemishes—they're not part of the good picture you want.

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.