510 Quotes by Andy Warhol

Scripts bore me. It’s much more exciting not to know what’s going to happen.

I loved working when I worked at commercial art and they told you what to do and how to do it and all you had to do was correct it and they’d say yes or no. The hard thing is when you have to dream up the tasteless things to do on your own.

And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love.

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.

We went into the lunchroom and then the monk read something for twenty minutes while we ate our lunch – sour apple cider and lentil soup which tasted like canned to me but when I said so everyone just looked at me like I’m crazy, but – I think I know my soup.

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.

You always liked disasters. You liked Grease II.

When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be a boss. A boss who could tell me what to do, because that makes everything easy when you’re working.

People do tend to avoid new realities; they’d rather just add details to the old ones. It’s as simple as that.