Andy Warhol Want Quotations

It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way.

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

I want to be a machine.

...after you stop wanting things is when having them won't make you go crazy. After you stop wanting them is when you can handle having them. Or before. But never during. If you get things when you really want them, you go crazy. Everything becomes distorted when something you really want is sitting in your lap.

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?

Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.

The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.

When I look at things, I always see the space they occupy. I always want the space to reappear, to make a comeback, because it's lost space when there's something in it.

The interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me to say and I’ll repeat them after him. I think that would be so great because I’m so empty I just can’t think of anything to say.

I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.

When I did my self-portrait, I left all the pimples out because you always should. Pimples are a temporary condition and they don't have anything to do with what you really look like. Always omit the blemishes-they're not part of the good picture you want.

The only time I ever want to be something is outside a party so I can get in.

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 smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.

The wide multitude wanted to seem contrarian. It meant that this type of nonconformism had to be mass-produced.