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All Quotes by author - Andy Warhol

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

" Art is what you can get away with. "

" Art? That's a man's name. "

" 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. "

" Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. "

" 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. "

" Checks aren't money. "

" Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. "

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

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

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

" Everyone needs a fantasy. "

" Fantasy love is much better than reality love. "

" Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours. "

" I always hear myself saying, 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about. "

" I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine. "

" 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.' "

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

" I am a deeply superficial person. "

" 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. "

" If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art. "

" 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. "

" If you wear a wig, everybody notices. But if you then dye the wig, people notice the dye. "

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

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

" I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordinary. "

" I like boring things. "

" I like to work when I'm not working - do something that may not be considered work, but to me it's work. Getting exercise by going to the grocery store. "

" 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. "

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

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