You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things. Andy Warhol More Quotes by Andy Warhol More Quotes From Andy Warhol I can't bear to let all this beautiful talk go by. Everybody says... fantastic things. People are always putting it down as an invasion of privacy, but I think everyone should be bugged all the time... bugged and photographed. Andy Warhol beautiful people thinking That's the hard part of overdosing on cherries-you have all the pits to tell you exactly how many you ate. Not more or less. Exactly. One-seed fruits really bother me for that reason. That's why I'd always rather eat raisins than prunes. Prune pits are even more imposing than cherry pits. Andy Warhol pits fruit reason [My vision of America is] a good vision. Actually the best is on TV. I wanted to shoot all the pictures off the TV. No one would have known the difference. Andy Warhol vision differences america I wish I hadn't made so many images. Andy Warhol made wish The lobbies are always the best-looking place in the hotel-you wish you could bring out a cot and sleep in them. Compared to the lobby, your room always looks like a closet. Andy Warhol wish sleep looks Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that seems to be what is happening. Andy Warhol individuality years thinking I just [take pictures] because the camera is something to carry around in my pocket. Andy Warhol cameras pockets I don't feel like I get germs when I hold money. Money has a certain kind of amnesty. I feel, when I'm holding money, that the dollar bill has no more germs on it than my hands do. When I pass my hand over money, it becomes perfectly clean to me. I don't know where it's been - who's touched it and with what - but that's all erased the moment I touch it. Andy Warhol dollar-bills dollars hands 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.' Andy Warhol tombstone artist names ...after you stop wanting things is when having them won't make you go crazy. After you stop wanting them is when you can handle having them. Or before. But never during. If you get things when you really want them, you go crazy. Everything becomes distorted when something you really want is sitting in your lap. Andy Warhol lap crazy sitting Nutty people are always writing me. I always think I must be on some nutty mailing list. Andy Warhol writing people thinking The moment you label something, you take a step-I mean, you can never go back again to seeing it unlabelled. Andy Warhol labels steps mean When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can't believe that people are still pregnant. Andy Warhol pregnancy believe people It's great not to be a collector. Andy Warhol collectors People in uniform always look so great. Andy Warhol uniforms people looks Coffee never used to keep me up at night, now it does. Andy Warhol coffee doe night It would be great to be super-human, to give the fans just what they want. Andy Warhol fans want giving It's funny when people don't know you and they meet you for the first time and think you're so great. When fans know you for more than three or four times the magic is gone. Andy Warhol magic people thinking I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. Andy Warhol more-money artist I really like to work a lot. It makes time go by fast. Andy Warhol time-goes-by making-time