Andy Warhol Quotes - Page 9

Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to be, and the way some women still 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.

Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button.

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

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

Maybe the reason my memory is so bad is that I always do at least two things at once. It's easier to forget something you only half-did or quarter did.

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.

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

If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not. I guess it's for our own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is when having them won't make you go crazy.

Every song has a memory; every song has the ability to make or break your heart, shut down the heart, and open the eyes. But I’m afraid if you look at a thing long enough; it loses all of its meaning

I never met a pet I didn't like.

I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie.

I think pot should be legal. I don’t smoke it, but I like the smell of it.

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

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.

Switzerland is my favorite place now, because it's so - nothing. There is absolutely nothing to do.

Sociological critics are waste makers.

I'm a deeply superficial person.

My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.' As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong. And the more you decide about, the more wrong it gets.

The clothes of Courreges are so nice.

Coffee never used to keep me up at night, now it does.

Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world.

You could never be an adolescent if you don't look like one.

The Palace is a good theater, you can see from everywhere.

If everyone isn't beautiful, then no one is.

It would be great to be super-human, to give the fans just what they want.