Andy Warhol

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

I had a lot of dates, but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.

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.

I am a deeply superficial person.

Everyone winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.

If everyone isn't beautiful, then no one is.

I always think about what it means to wear eyeglasses. When you get used to glasses you don't know how far you could really see.

People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there.

The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can't be on your own, which is always so much better.

When you're interested in somebody, and you think they might be interested in you, you should point out all your beauty problems and defects right away, rather than take a chance they won't notice them. Maybe, say, you have a permanent beauty problem you can't change, such as too-short legs. Just say it. 'My legs, as you've probably noticed, are much too short in proportion to the rest of my body.' Why give the other person the satisfaction of discovering it for themselves?

I believe in low light and trick mirrors. I believe in plastic surgery.

Buying is much more American than thinking.

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

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

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

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

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'.

Everything is more glamorous when you do it in bed, anyway. Even peeling potatoes.