It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

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

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'

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.

Land really is the best art.

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

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

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

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.

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 used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

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

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

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.'

In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

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 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.'

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.