After being alive, the next hardest work is having sex. — Andy Warhol

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of ‘work,’ because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don’t always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep. — Andy Warhol

Exposure and attention make a work famous–the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves. — Andy Warhol

I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can. — Andy Warhol

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. — Andy Warhol

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. — Andy Warhol

I like to work when I’m not working–do something that may not be considered work, but to me it’s work. Getting exercise by going to the grocery store. — Andy Warhol

I think it would be great to make a $2 million or $3 million art movie where nobody would really have to go to it. I thought that would be a good project to work on . . . do something really artistic. — Andy Warhol

I really like to work a lot. It makes time go by fast. — Andy Warhol

So many people seem to prefer my silver–screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good. — Andy Warhol

Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world. — Andy Warhol

The world fascinates me. — Andy Warhol

Money has a certain kind of amnesty. — Andy Warhol

Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star. — Andy Warhol

I’ll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. — Andy Warhol

Wasting money puts you in a real party mood. — Andy Warhol

I like comedy, not violence, but violence is making a lot of money. But comedy is what I like. — Andy Warhol

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all. — Andy Warhol

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. — Andy Warhol

So many people have so many problems. When you think that health is wealth, you’re so grateful just to be normal, more or less. Aren’t you? — Andy Warhol

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy? — Andy Warhol

I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD BE BUGGED ALL THE TIME…BUGGED AND PHOTOGRAPHED — Andy Warhol

Whenever I’m interested in something, I know the timing’s off, because I’m always interested in the right thing at the wrong time. I should just be getting interested after I’m not interested any more. — Andy Warhol

It’s funny when people don’t know you and they meet you for the first time and think you’re so great. When fans know you for more than three or four times the magic is gone. — Andy Warhol

The only time I ever want to be something is outside a party so I can get in. — Andy Warhol

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time. — Andy Warhol

I think anybody can take a good picture. My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous. It’s being in the right place at the wrong time. — Andy Warhol

I used to drink Coke all the time. It was so good. It gives you a lot of energy. — Andy Warhol

James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time. — Andy Warhol

Even beauties can be unattractive. If you catch a beauty in the wrong light at the right time, forget it. I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. I believe in plastic surgery. — Andy Warhol

Traveling makes time go fast. So maybe traveling in space will give people time. — Andy Warhol

They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself. — Andy Warhol

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

Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory: instead of fifteen minutes of fame, he will have fifteen centuries. — Andy Warhol

Everybody does the same thing over and over again. I like to do the same thing every day. — Andy Warhol

Everything will be art and nothing will be art, because everything, as I believe, already is. — Andy Warhol

When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can’t believe that people are still pregnant. — Andy Warhol

I don’t believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back. — 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

I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. — Andy Warhol

You wouldn’t believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains. — Andy Warhol

What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. — Andy Warhol

The more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel. — Andy Warhol

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. — Andy Warhol

I love Los Angeles, and I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. — Andy Warhol

Uptown is for people who have already done something. Downtown is where they’re doing something now. I live uptown but I love downtown. — Andy Warhol

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

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

People should fall in love with their eyes closed. — Andy Warhol

Love and sex can go together and sex and unLove can go together and Love and unsex can go together. but personal Love and personal sex is bad. — Andy Warhol

I wonder if it’s possible to have a love affair that lasts forever. — Andy Warhol

People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don’t look and it’s magic — Andy Warhol

One person in the 60s fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love — Andy Warhol

The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can’t be on your own, wich is always so much better. — Andy Warhol

I love it when you ask actors, ‘What are you Doing now?’ and they say ‘I’m between roles’. To be living ‘life between roles’ that’s my favorite — Andy Warhol

There should be a course in the first grade on love. — Andy Warhol

A friend of mine always says, ‘Women love me for the man I’m not.’ — Andy Warhol

The symptom of love is when some of the chemicals inside you go bad. So there must be something in love because your chemicals do tell you something. — Andy Warhol

Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, ‘I knew he loved me when de didn’t come in my mouth. — Andy Warhol

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. — Andy Warhol

Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art. — Andy Warhol

Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that. — Andy Warhol

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don’t think they’ve ever remembered. — Andy Warhol

Everything is more glamorous when you do it in bed anyway. — Andy Warhol