When I did my self-portrait, I left all the pimples out because you always should. Pimples are a temporary condition and they don't have anything to … - Andy Warhol

Pimples are a temporary condition and they don’t have anything to do with what you really look like. Always omit the blemishes — they’re not part of the good picture you want.

What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest

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

What I was actually trying to do in my early movies was show how people can meet other people and what they can do and what they can say to each other. That was the whole idea: two people getting acquainted. And then when you saw it and you saw the sheer simplicity of it, you learned what it was all about. Those movies showed you how some people act and react with other people. They were like actual sociological 'For instance's. They were like documentaries, and if you thought it could apply to you, it was an example, and if it didn't apply to you, at least it was a documentary, it could apply to somebody you knew and it could clear up some questions you had about them.