Andy Warhol

“I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.”

“When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.”

“Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.”

“Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.”

“I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.”

“If you wear a wig, everybody notices. But if you then dye the wig, people notice the dye.”

“I've been invited to the White House about five times. I think the greatest thing would be if they actually invited everybody to the White House every night... they'd just take about 500 peo...”

“The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.”

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

“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.”

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

“In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.”

“My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.”

“Everyone needs a fantasy.”

“Fantasy love is much better than reality love.”

“Being 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.”

“My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.”

“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.”

“It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.”

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