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Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you? — Andy Warhol

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. — Andy Warhol

I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous. — Eileen Myles

I sound like Warhol but only because I'm tired. — William Monahan

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

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

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. — Andy Warhol

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

As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it. — Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60. — Gore Vidal

You know it's ART, when the check clears. — Andy Warhol

Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods. — David Sylvester

Hey, Cunningham - Andy Warhol called. You're at 14:55 and we're tickin' big-time here, Chachi. — Dennis Miller

Whether you think you like Rubens or not, his influence runs through the pathways of painting. Like Warhol, he changed the game of art. — Jenny Saville

After Andy Warhol died, it left a dark cloud over N.Y.C. nightlife. — Theophilus London

I've collected Andy Warhol art for years now I have two portraits of myself done by Steve Kaufman. — David Caruso

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

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

I wish I hadn't made so many images. — Andy Warhol

When the Woolworth's-Hot-Fudge-Sundae switch goes on, then I know I really have something. — Andy Warhol

I always hear myself saying, 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about. — Andy Warhol

(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. — Andy Warhol

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

I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol! — J.G. Ballard

I think it would be terrific if everybody was alike. — Andy Warhol

For me, Warhol made so much sense. — Raf Simons

Girl Talk, produced by Andy Warhol. — Robin Sloan

I really hate heights. I always like to live on the first floor. — Andy Warhol

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting. — Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol says everyone will be famous for 15 minutes in the future, but even he couldn't have imagine today's fame is due to whom you sleep with. — Steve Kaufman

And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory. — Andy Warhol

I will go to the Opening of Anything, including a Toilet Seat — Andy Warhol

There was no way I could write a paper knowing that Andy Warhol and Boy George were partying at Danceteria. — Michael Alig

People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. — Andy Warhol

Security breeds stagnation. — Andy Warhol

Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work. — Ai Weiwei

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want. — Andy Warhol

I used to drink Coke all the time. It was so good. It gives you a lot of energy. — Andy Warhol

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh. — Kanye West

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

Don't think about making art ... — Andy Warhol

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-ordinary. — Andy Warhol

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

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

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

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

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

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

Warhol was a prime example of a schizoid person. Maybe he had Asperger's, or maybe he was just an amorous human being on earth. — Jim Shaw

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered. — Andy Warhol

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

All photography is Pop, and all photographers are crazy ... they feel guilty since they don't have to do very much - just push a button. — Andy Warhol

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die — Andy Warhol

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. — Andy Warhol

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

Forgers can start with the same photographic images Warhol did, and sometimes knock off silkscreens only an expert can distinguish from the originals. — Michael Shnayerson

I was lucky with my first film because it had Warhol in it. That was the selling point. — Mary Harron

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

I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me. — Andy Warhol

People have a tendency to think I was part of Warhol's Factory - I never was. I've always been independent. — Michel Auder

Good business is the best art of all. — Andy Warhol

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

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

That is what [Andy] Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting. — Giorgio Armani

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church. — Allen Ginsberg

When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can't believe that people are still pregnant. — Andy Warhol

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

I want to be a machine. — Andy Warhol

I think pot should be legal. I don't smoke it, but I like the smell of it. — Andy Warhol

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

Everybody must have a fantasy. — Andy Warhol

Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that. — Andy Warhol

New York restaurants are about selling atmospheres. — Andy Warhol

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. — Andy Warhol

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

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

B kissed Damian. Two people kissing always look like fish. — Andy Warhol

It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way. — Andy Warhol

The world fascinates me. — Andy Warhol

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art — Andy Warhol

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

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

I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again. — Andy Warhol

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

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer. — Andy Warhol

People should fall in love with their eyes closed. — Andy Warhol

There should be a course in first grade on love. — Andy Warhol

The only time I ever want to be something is outside a party so I can get in. — Andy Warhol

The symptom of love is when some of the chemicals inside you go bad. So there must be something in love because your chemicals do tell you something. — Andy Warhol

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

You know what Andy Warhol's sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell's Soup a household word. — Alan Arkin

The clothes of Courreges are so nice. — Andy Warhol

The wide multitude wanted to seem contrarian. It meant that this type of nonconformism had to be mass-produced. — Andy Warhol

When you do something exactly wrong, you always turn up something. — Andy Warhol

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. — Andy Warhol

You always liked disasters. You liked Grease II — Andy Warhol

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

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

I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

I've never made the separation between, say, the museum and the hardware store. I mean, I enjoy both of them, and I want to combine the two. — Andy Warhol