Quotes

“Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.” Andy Warhol

“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.” Andy Warhol

“I like boring things.” Andy Warhol

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

“I am a deeply superficial person.” Andy Warhol

“Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.” Andy Warhol

“I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.” Andy Warhol

“I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.” Andy Warhol

“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

“During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.” Andy Warhol

“It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.” Andy Warhol

“I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'” Andy Warhol

“The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.” Andy Warhol

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

“Land really is the best art.” Andy Warhol

“I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.” Andy Warhol

“Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.” Andy Warhol

“The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.” Andy Warhol

“What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.” Andy Warhol

“I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?” Andy Warhol

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

“My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.” Andy Warhol

“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.'” Andy Warhol

“I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. 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.'” Andy Warhol

“In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” Andy Warhol

“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.” Andy Warhol

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” Oprah Winfrey

“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.” Oprah Winfrey

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” Oprah Winfrey