Andy Warhol

"In fifteen minutes, everybody will be famous."

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

"Gee, I'd like to be reincarnated as Warren Beatty's bathwater."

"The more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away."

"Everyone is born with an equal right to be weird."

"I suppose I will die without anyone understanding me, but my work will survive."

"If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and my films and there I am."

"I never read the interviews after I do them because it's always a big disappointment."

"An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have."

"Isn't that great? They want to pay you to do what you want to do."

"I should have started a religion."

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

"I just let my subconscious do whatever it wants to do."

"I've never met a person I couldn't call a beauty."

"I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best."

"The reason I'm painting this way is because I want to be a machine."

"Everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes, or fifteen people will be famous forever."

"I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Thank God it was Edward who finally came up with it."

"Art should be fun."

"I'm afraid that if you look at a painting long enough, it loses all of its meaning."

"What's great about this country is America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest."

"I want to see a lot more art."

"Isn't life wonderful? I guess it must be."

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

"I like thinking big. If you're going to do something, do it big."

"If you want to know about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface."

"The best thing about being famous is that you don't have to pay for things."

"I wish I could be Britain."

"I'm very loyal. When I like something, I stick with it."

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