Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
I always thought I’d like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I’d like it to say ‘figment.’
The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.
Land really is the best art.
I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.
Everybody must have a fantasy.
When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be a boss. A boss who could tell me what to do, because that makes everything easy when you’re working.
You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.
I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die.
I always think I don’t do the first one good, so I try to do it more.
I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is.
The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting.
Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
I think everybody should like everybody.
I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
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.
I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.
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.
There is beauty in everything, just not everybody sees it.
I think anybody can take a good picture. My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous. It’s being in the right place at the wrong time.