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" 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. "

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" Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. "

" I am a deeply superficial person. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I want to be a machine. "

" 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'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. "

" People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. "

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

" When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums. "

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

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

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

" What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. "

" Sociological critics are waste makers. "

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

" I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own. "

" 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. "

" Everyone needs a fantasy. "

" Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don't know whether I'm alive or whether I died. I wasn't afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn't feel fear. But I am afraid. I don't understand why. "

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

" They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. "

" 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. "

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

" I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike. "

" It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger. "

" Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too. "

" We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art. "

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

" I think kids should go to high school until they're 30. No, really, because people are staying younger now and there's nothing to do. If you stayed longer, then it would be really great. "