I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

— Andy Warhol

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should 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'.

— Andy Warhol

In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

— Andy Warhol

I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art.

— Andy Warhol

I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art. The best art are those dime novels. People will put those books in a museum one day. Artists will make paintings of them. They're beautiful. And for everyone. That's how I want my art to be.

— Andy Warhol

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

— Andy Warhol

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.

— Andy Warhol

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

— Andy Warhol

I think they should have movies in restaurants. I can't believe that so many people get together just to sit there. It's so abstract... isn't it abstract? What are these people sitting here watching?

— Andy Warhol

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

— Andy Warhol