Quotes by Andy Warhol

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

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

I think everybody should like everybody.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.

A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.

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

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

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

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting.

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.

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

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

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

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

Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

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

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.

In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too.