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

Art is what you can get away with.
Andy Warhol

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.
Andy Warhol

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol

I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
Andy Warhol

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

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

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

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
Andy Warhol

Drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to be to be, the way some people still want them to be, and the way some women will actually want to be. Drags are ambulatory archives of ideal moviestar womanhood. They perform a documentary service, usually consecrating their lives to keeping the glittering alternative alive and available for (not-too-close) inspection.
Andy Warhol

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.”
Andy Warhol

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

I am a deeply superficial person.
Andy Warhol

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

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

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

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

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.
Andy Warhol

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

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

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.
Andy Warhol

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

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

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.
Andy Warhol

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

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

What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
Andy Warhol

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