“In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.”
“Art is what you can get away with.”
“Don’t think about making art, just get it done.”
“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.”
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art anybody could ever want to own.”
“I never fall apart because I never fall together.”
“I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”
“I think everybody should like everybody.”
“The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting.”
“I like boring things.”
“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, ‘So what.’”
“Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.”
“I am a deeply superficial person.”
“I like to be the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place.”
“Fantasy love is much better than reality love.”
“When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.”
“I think having a job is the best kind of art.”
“Success is a job in New York.”
“You have to do stuff that average people don’t understand because those are the only good things.”
“You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.”
“I think it would be so great if more people took up silk screens.”
“I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.”
“It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.”
“I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.”
“I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.”
“I think people should be able to buy art like they buy clothes.”
“My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat—manifest my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.”
“I have a social disease. I have to go out every night.”
“I’m an artist, and I’m a businessperson too.”
“People should fall in love with their eyes closed.”
“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 don’t think people should live in the past. It just destroys them.”
“I always notice flowers.”
“Making money is art and working is art, and good business is the best art.”
“I like things to be exactly the same over and over again.”
“Once you ‘got’ Pop, you could never see a sign the same way again.”
“I like being the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place.”
“I think people are surprised at how boring being famous is.”
“I’d prefer to remain a mystery. I never like to give my background, and anyway, I make it all different every time I’m asked.”
“I think everybody should be a machine.”
“I don’t want to be smart because being smart makes you depressed.”
“I’ve decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.”
“People should really take care when they use words. They should think of the consequences.”
“I always hear myself saying this: I can’t be responsible for my own inspiration.”
“If everyone isn’t beautiful, then no one is.”
“Sometimes you don’t know what you’re going to say until you say it.”
“I’d like to write a novel where all the characters did absolutely nothing.”
“Why do people think artists are special? It’s just another job.”
“Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?”