An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have. - 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. - Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. - During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don’t think they’ve ever remembered. - Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone’s got to take care of all your details. - Employees make the best dates. You don’t have to pick them up and they’re always tax-deductible. - Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. - 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 always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with. - I am a deeply superficial person. - I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows. - I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs. - I like boring things. - I never think that people die. They just go to department stores. - 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.’ - 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.

-Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), more commonly known as Andy Warhol, American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.