510 Quotes by Andy Warhol

I love going out every night. It’s so exciting.

Look poor, think rich.

You meet rich people and you hang around with them, and one night they've had a few drinks and they say 'I'll buy it!' Then they tell their friends, 'You must have this person's work, darling,' and that's all you need. That's all it takes. Get it?

Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to be, and the way some women still actually want to be. Drags are ambulatory archives of ideal moviestar womanhood. They perform a documentary service, usually consecrating their lives to keeping the glittering alternative alive and available for (not-too-close) inspection.

Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.

Money has a certain kind of amnesty.

Exposure and attention make a work famous - the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.

I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.

When you work with people who misunderstand you, instead of getting transmissions, you get transmutations, and that's much more interesting in the long run.