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Quotes by Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

Im afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

Art? Thats a mans name.

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

Id asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, Well, what do you love most? Thats how I started painting money.

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

Isnt life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

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.

Im the type whod be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasnt going to. Im the type whod like to sit home and watch every party that Im invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

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

“You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.”

“I never understood why when you died, you didnt just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldnt be there. I always thought Id like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, Id like it to say figment.”

“Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it’s not good any more.”

“People should fall in love with their eyes closed.”

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