Andy Warhol Quotes - Page 6

I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.

Two people kissing always look like fish.

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 really don't care that much about "Beauties." What I really like are Talkers. To me, good talkers are beautiful because good talk is what I love. The word itself shows why I like Talkers better than Beauties, why I tape more than I film. It's not "talkies." Talkers are doing something.

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.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art

I'm seeking out a new way to live and if it's surfing, that's the way I'll do it. I'll be a surfer for the rest of my life.

If everybody's not a beauty, then nobody is

Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like you're watching television -- you don't feel anything.

Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see. So the fantasy corners of America seem so atmospheric because you 've pieced them together from scenes in movies and music and lines from books.

People are always calling me a mirror and if a mirror looks into a mirror, what is there to see?

Buying is more American than thinking, and I'm as American as they come.

Bad taste makes the day go by faster.

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

Even beauties can be unattractive. If you catch a beauty in the wrong light at the right time, forget it. I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. I believe in plastic surgery.

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

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

I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.

(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

One person in the 60s fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love

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.'

When I did my self-portrait, I left all the pimples out because you always should. Pimples are a temporary condition and they don't have anything to do with what you really look like. Always omit the blemishes-they're not part of the good picture you want.