People should fall in love with their eyes closed.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it’s not good any more.

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should 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'.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

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

Just because people throw it out and don't have any use for it, doesn't mean it's garbage.

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

Art is what you can get away with.

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.

I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

You know it's ART, when the check clears.

I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art.

Art is what you get away with

I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art. The best art are those dime novels. People will put those books in a museum one day. Artists will make paintings of them. They're beautiful. And for everyone. That's how I want my art to be.

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

Everybody must have a fantasy.

Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it.

The child-like, gum-chewing naïveté , the glamour rooted in despair, the self admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones…

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

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.

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

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

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what.""My mother didn't love me." So what."My husband won't ball me. So what."I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what.I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.

Business art is the step that comes after art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist. Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. During the hippie era people put down the idea of business. They’d say “money is bad” and “working is bad”. But making money is art, and working is art - and good business is the best art.

If I ever have to cast an acting role, I want the wrong person for the part. I can never visualize the right person in a part. The right person for the right part would be too much. Besides, no person is every completely right for any part, because part in a role is never real, so if you can't get someone who's perfectly right, it's more satisfying to get someone who's perfectly wrong. Then you know you've really got something.

Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can’t see…So the fantasy corners of America…you’ve pieced them together from scenes in movies and music and lines from books. And you live in your dream America that you’ve custom-made from art and schmaltz and emotions just as much as you live in your real one.

Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.

Kiss me with your eyes.

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

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."Andy Warhol

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

I always notice flowers.

You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

I am a deeply superficial person.

Some day each of us will be famous for fifteen minutes.