Various artist quotations.

Andy Warhol (American 1927-1987)

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

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.

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

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

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

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

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

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

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

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

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.

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."

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

I am a deeply superficial person.

I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.

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

I like boring things.

I love him, I worship him. I masturbate to Duran Duran videos.

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

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

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.'

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of ''work,'' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

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

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

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

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

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

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.

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.

In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

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

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.

Land really is the best art.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

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

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

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

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

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

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

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

Various James Earl (Jimmy) Carter quotes:

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
 

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honour nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

You just have to have a simple faith.