Nutty people are always writing me. I always think I must be on some nutty mailing list.

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

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

If you wear a wig, everybody notices. But if you then dye the wig, people notice the dye.

When the Woolworth's-Hot-Fudge-Sundae switch goes on, then I know I really have something.

And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.

Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.

Some people look 40 when they're 40. People look the way they're supposed to look at any age.

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

As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic.

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

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

The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

People are always calling me a mirror and if a mirror looks into a mirror, what is there to see?

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.

I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.

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

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

Switzerland is my favorite place now, because it's so - nothing. There is absolutely nothing to do.

I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.

If you can convince yourself that you look fabulous, you can save yourself the trouble of primping.

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

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

I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is.

When I was in the hospital after I was shot they gave me drugs, but it was so great to get off those.

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

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

When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people.

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'

The moment you label something, you take a step-I mean, you can never go back again to seeing it unlabelled.

I like church. It's empty when I go. I walk around. There are so many beautiful Catholic churches in New York.

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.

The wide multitude wanted to seem contrarian. It meant that this type of nonconformism had to be mass-produced.

The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it’s a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor.

I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

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

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.

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

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

It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way.

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

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

I'd rather do new stuff. The old stuff is better to talk about than to see. It always sounds better than it really is.

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

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

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

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