Andy Warhol Motivational Quotes

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.

Sociological critics are waste makers.

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 want to be a machine.

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.

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

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.

Art? That's a man's name.

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.'

Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil - of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them and tape-record them. But I didn't think of myself as evil - just realistic.

I think they should have movies in restaurants. I can't believe that so many people get together just to sit there. It's so abstract... isn't it abstract? What are these people sitting here watching?

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 went to vote once, but I got too scared. I couldn't decide whom to vote for.

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

Fantasy love is much better than reality love.

I want to die with my blue jeans on.

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

So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.

I like boring things.

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.