Quotes by Andy Warhol

I always notice flowers.

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

I am a deeply superficial person.

Some day each of us will be famous for fifteen minutes.

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

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.

Employees make the best dates. You dont have to pick them up and theyre always tax-deductible.

In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

My idea of a good picture is one thats in focus and of a famous person.

Im bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.

Land really is the best art.

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.

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.

Whats 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.

People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, its the way things happen to you in life thats unreal.

Its 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.

I think they should have movies in restaurants. I cant believe that so many people get together just to sit there. Its so abstract... isnt it abstract? What are these people sitting here watching?

I always hear myself saying, Shes a beauty! or Hes a beauty! or What a beauty! but I never know what Im talking about.

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I dont know. I mean, how can you tell?

If youre not trying to be real, you dont have to get it right. Thats art.