Andy Warhol

Art is anything you can get away with.

Sometimes, people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, so what. That is one of my favourite things to say. So what.

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

Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?

I want everybody to think alike. I think everybody should be a machine.

Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad.

After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex. Of course, for some people it isn't work because they need the exercise and they've got the energy for the sex and the sex gives them even more energy. Some people get energy from sex and some people lose energy from sex. I have found that it's too much work.

I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.

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 know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good.

I never think that people die. They just go to another room.

Some people can have sex and really let their minds go blank and fill up with the sex; other people can never let their minds go blank and fill up with the sex, so while they're having the sex they're thinking, 'Can this really be me? Am I really doing this? This is very strange. Five minutes ago I wasn't doing this. In a little while I won't be doing it. What would Mom say? How did people ever think of doing this?'

I always hear myself saying, 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about. Do any of us ever, really?

I went to one [a psychiatrist] once, and he never called me back. Everybody I knew was going, and they make you feel as if you've got to go. So I went once, and they never called me back, and I felt so funny. But then I guess someone came along and took me out to a movie, or I got a new hat or something.

Do you think the world can be saved? No.

Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television.