Lain > Lain's Quotes

“It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“Art is what you can get away with.”
― Andy Warhol

“People should fall in love with their eyes closed.”
― Andy Warhol

“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.”
― Andy Warhol

“It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.”
― Andy Warhol

“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.”
― Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol

“Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.”
― Andy Warhol

“In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.”
― Andy Warhol

“I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.”
― Andy Warhol

“I always think about what it means to wear eyeglasses. When you get used to glasses you don't know how far you could really see. I think about all the people before eyeglasses were invented. It must have been weird because everyone was seeing in different ways according to how bad their eyes were. Now, eyeglasses standardize everyone's vision to 20-20. That's an example of everyone becoming more alike. Everyone could be seeing at different levels if it weren't for glasses.”
― Andy Warhol

“I like boring things.”
― Andy Warhol

“I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”
― Andy Warhol

“I think everybody should be nice to everybody.”
― Andy Warhol

“Everybody must have a fantasy.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”
― Andy Warhol

“Most people in America think Art is a man's name.”
― Andy Warhol

“The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting”
― Andy Warhol

“I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.”
― Andy Warhol

“I am a deeply superficial person.”
― Andy Warhol

“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.”
― Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol: In His Own Words

“And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.”
― Andy Warhol

“What's great about this country is America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good.”
― Andy Warhol

“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.”
― Andy Warhol

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

“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.”
― Andy Warhol

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

“Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.”
― Andy Warhol

“I had a lot of dates, but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.”
― Andy Warhol