Andy Warhol Quotes - Page 8

I never understand how the lipstick business goes on because lipstick lasts forever.

Everybody does the same thing over and over again. I like to do the same thing every day.

New things are always better than old things.

I really like to work a lot. It makes time go by fast.

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

The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it’s a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor.

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.

Whenever I’m interested in something, I know the timing’s off, because I’m always interested in the right thing at the wrong time. I should just be getting interested after I’m not interested any more.

So many people have so many problems. When you think that health is wealth, you're so grateful just to be normal, more or less. Aren't you?

Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.

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 today if you see a person who looks like your teenage fantasy walking down the street, it's probably not your fantasy, but someone who had the same fantasy as you and decided instead of getting it or being it, to look like it, and so he went to the store and bought the look that you both like. So forget it. Just think about all the James Deans and what it means.

Pop art is a way of liking things.

Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad.

I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordina ry.

Reruns are my favorite things on TV.

My image is a statement of the symbols of the harsh, impersonal products and brash materialistic objects on which America is built today. It is a projection of everything that can be bought and sold, and practical but impermanent symbols that sustain us.

Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.

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.

In the early days of film, fans used to idolize a whole star - they would take one star and love everything about that star ... Today people can idolize a star in one area and forget about him in another. A big rock star might sell millions and millions of records, but then if he makes a bad movie ... forget it.

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

When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people.

I get so tired of painting. I've been trying to give it up all the time, if we could just make a living out of movies or the newspaper business or something. It's so boring, painting the same picture over and over.

You have to hang on in periods when your style isn't popular, because if it's good, it'll come back, and you'll be a recognized beauty once again.