I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.
Kiss me with your eyes.
I wonder if it’s possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.
When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them.
Pop art is about liking things.
The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.
The nicer I am, the more people think I’m lying.
Everything is more glamorous when you do it in bed anyway.
I wake up every morning. I open my eyes and think: here we go again.
Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they’ll just have to learn how to be babies longer.
Beauty is a sign of intelligence.
The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.
I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.
Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it’s not good any more.
I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.
When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.
Once you ‘got’ Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.
I’m bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is ‘In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.’
I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.
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.