+ I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece.

+ 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.

+ When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

+ My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.' As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong. And the more you decide about, the more wrong it gets.

+ If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, there I am. There's nothing behind it.

+ 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.

+ A lady friend of mine asked me,
"Well, what do you love most?"
That's how I started painting money.

+ The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful things in Stockholm is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.

+ I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.