Andy Warhol

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

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

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.

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

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 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.'

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.'

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.