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Wasting money puts you in a real party mood.

I never fall apart, because I never fall together.

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

I had a lot of dates, but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.

I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back.

People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there.

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

Sports figures are to the '70s what movie stars were to the '60s.

Success is what sells.

As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.

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

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

You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.

I never read. I just look at pictures.

The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.

I always notice flowers.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

If I had gone ahead and died ten years ago, I'd probably be a cult figure today.

I like boring things.

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs.

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

I never met a pet I didn't like.

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

I do mostly portraits. So it's just people's faces, not really any ideas.

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

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

If there's ever a problem, I film it and it's no longer a problem. It's a film.

Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.

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

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

Pop art is about liking things.

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

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

The nicer I am, the more people think I'm lying.

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

Traveling makes time go fast. So maybe traveling in space will give people time.

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

Rodeo Drive is a giant butterscotch sundae.

New things are always better than old things.

I like church. It's empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York.

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 still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don't want to get too close; I don't like to touch things ...

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

History books are being re-written all the time

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

The more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel.

I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.

I really don't care that much about 'Beauties'. What I really like are Talkers ... Talkers are doing something. Beauties are being something ...

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

The best museum is Bloomingdales.

The world fascinates me.

People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.

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

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

I've never met a person I've couldn't call a beauty.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art

Everything is more glamorous when you do it in bed anyway.

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.

What we're all looking for is someone who doesn't live there, just pays for it.

Just because people throw it out and don't have any use for it, doesn't mean it's garbage.

People should fall in love with their eyes closed.

There should be a course in first grade on love.

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time.

The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is

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

Good business is the best art of all.

Beauty really has to do with the way a person carries it off

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

If you don't think about it, it's right.

New York restaurants are about selling atmospheres.

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.

I just do art because I'm ugly and there's nothing else for me to do.

When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.

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

I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD BE BUGGED ALL THE TIME ... BUGGED AND PHOTOGRAPHED

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

B kissed Damian. Two people kissing always look like fish.

Sociological critics are waste makers.

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

I will find your books and review with nastiness.

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it

Pop art is for everyone.

If everybody's not a beauty, then nobody is

Publicity is like eating peanuts. Once you start you can't stop.

The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can't be on your own, wich is always so much better.

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

Land really is the best 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 you can convince yourself that you look fabulous, you can save yourself the trouble of primping.

And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love.

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

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.

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

Uptown is for people who have already done something. Downtown is where they're doing something now. I live uptown but I love downtown.

I love going out every night. It's so exciting.