510 Quotes by Andy Warhol

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

I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.

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'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.

Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.

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've been invited to the White House about five times. I think the greatest thing would be if they actually invited everybody to the White House every night... they'd just take about 500 people a night. Everybody would just love this country because it's so thrilling to go there. It really is.

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

So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.