Andy Warhol

I am a deeply superficial person.

I like boring things.

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.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

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.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love.

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

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

People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal.

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

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.

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.