Andy Warhol Motivational Quotes

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

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.'

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

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

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

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

Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don't know whether I'm alive or whether I died. I wasn't afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn't feel fear. But I am afraid. I don't understand why.

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

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

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

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

Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous 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.

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

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

I think kids should go to high school until they're 30. No, really, because people are staying younger now and there's nothing to do. If you stayed longer, then it would be really great.

Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.

I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.

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