Andy Warhol Artist Quotations

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

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.

The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.

I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.

I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

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

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.

How can you say one style is better than another? You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week, or a Pop artist, or a realist, without feeling you've given up something.. I think that would be so great, to be able to change styles. And I think that's what's is going to happen, that's going to be the whole new scene.

The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second — comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators, Coke bottles. All the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried not to notice at all.