But I always say, one’s company, two’s a crowd, and three’s a party

You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people

In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes

So today if you see a person who looks like your teenage fantasy walking down the street, it’s probably not your fantasy, but someone who had the same fantasy as you

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

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

If I had gone ahead and died ten years ago, I’d probably be a cult figure today

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

Every person has beauty at some point in their lifetime

Makeup is so well-advertised you can’t ignore it completely

Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad

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

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet

The symptom of love is when some of the chemicals inside you go bad. So, there must be something in love because your chemicals do tell you something

Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don’t have it

I wonder if it’s possible to have a love affair that lasts forever

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

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

So, a pop art should be flattering, in the sense that it’s a reflection of a positive part of the person’s personality

Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?

Pop art is a way of liking things

Everybody must have a fantasy

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

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

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

I like boring things

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

I like money on the wall

Being the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place is worth it because something interesting always happens

Every song has a memory; every song has the ability to make or break your heart, shut down the heart, and open the eyes

As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That’s one of my favorite things to say. So, what

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

I wake up every morning. I open my eyes and think: here we go again

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

I really do live for the future, because when I’m eating a box of candy, I can’t wait to taste the last piece. I don’t even taste any of the other pieces, I just want to finish and throw the box away and not have it on my mind any more

Sometimes the little times you don’t think are anything while they’re happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life

When you’ve got gray hair, every move you make seems young and spry, instead of just being normally active

I’m truly embarrassed at the idea of somebody cleaning up after me

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

I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike

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

Money has a certain kind of amnesty

Looking younger and being younger is the adolescence idea

Bad taste makes the day go by faster

Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years, it may be the other way around

I have no memory. Every day is new because I don’t remember the day before. Every minute is like the first minute of my life

People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing

If everyone isn’t beautiful, then no one is

Success is what sells

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are

In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes

I like to be the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place. Being the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place is worth it because something interesting always happens

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

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet

My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat – or in film’s case ‘run on’ – manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of ‘work,’ because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don’t always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep

I never fall apart, because I never fall together.

Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

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

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

A picture means I know where I was every minute. That’s why I take pictures. It’s a visual diary

I am a deeply superficial person

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 think everybody should like everybody

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

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

You need to let go of what you’re taught in art school.

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

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

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

I think everybody should be nice to everybody.

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

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

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them

Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, ‘I knew he loved me when he didn’t come in my mouth

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

I never understood why when you died, you didn’t just vanish, and everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn’t be there

Art is what you can get away with

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

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, ‘So what.’ That’s one of my favorite things to say. ‘So what

I want to die with my blue jeans on

People should fall in love with their eyes closed

Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it

An artist is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have, but that he – for some reason – thinks it would be a good idea to give them

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

The more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel

I never read, I just look at pictures