"An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them."
"In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."
"I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'"
"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 met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so American."
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic."
"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."
"I never think that people die. They just go to department stores."
"I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning."
"Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again."
"I am a deeply superficial person."
"Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."
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Andy's Quotes