Andy Warhol — "I'm not a real artist. I'm a commercial artist."

"I'd prefer to remain a mystery. I never give my background, and, anyway, I make it all up different every time I'm asked."

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

"I think I'll stop here. I don't want to get into a thing where I'm a personality."

"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?"

"You see, I think every painting should be the same size and the same color so they're all interchangeable and nobody thinks they have a better painting or a worse painting And if the one 'master paint…"