The reason I’m painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.
ANDY WARHOLThe reason I’m painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.
ANDY WARHOLAn artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.
ANDY WARHOLThe nicer I am, the more people think I’m lying.
ANDY WARHOLI wake up every morning. I open my eyes and think: here we go again.
ANDY WARHOLThe interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me to say and I’ll repeat them after him. I think that would be so great because I’m so empty I just can’t think of anything to say.
ANDY WARHOLA picture means I know where I was every minute. That’s why I take pictures. It’s a visual diary.
ANDY WARHOLBeing born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
ANDY WARHOLAnd your own life while it’s happening to you never has any atmosphere until it’s a memory.
ANDY WARHOLI do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.
ANDY WARHOLI wonder if it’s possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.
ANDY WARHOLSometimes the little times you don’t think are anything while they’re happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.
ANDY WARHOLI 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.
ANDY WARHOLBeing good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
ANDY WARHOLYou need to let little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.
ANDY WARHOLA friend of mine always says, ‘Women love me for the man I’m not.’
ANDY WARHOLWhen 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.
ANDY WARHOL