BEST HOLLYWOOD DESCRIPTION EVER!

«Hollywood's so strange it seems like no one is working out there but they must be»

-Andy Warhol
Interview magazine
May 1977 p.22

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«I LIKE TO WORK WHEN I'M NOT WORKING»

At every stage of his career as filmmaker, pop painter, printmaker, publisher, writer and portraitist, he was an indefatigable worker, doing what needed to be done-from distributing copies of Interview magazine to procuring portrait commissions. He worked his staff as hard. Andy Warhol Enterprises was a group effort. Pat Hackett and Bob Colacello wrote The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (and received royalties). Warhol was encouraging, the zealous mother, continually urging his staff to go out and bring home the bacon. Having the power of an aesthtic, work became the foundation of his art».

-Andy Warhol Studio Still Lifes
Paul Kasmin Gallery
p.11

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MONDE GAY

Warhol disait ne pas croire que les homosexuels soient plus créatifs que les hétéros. Karl Lagerfeld affirme être pour que les enfants puissent être élevés par deux femmes, mais pas par deux hommes. Pourquoi les points de vue anti recitude politique comme ceux -là sont -ils devenus aussi rares lorsqu'il s'agit de la communauté gay?

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

«I get my news on the Internet or whatever, just hard facts. Almost every publication has
sensationalist jounalism in it. I don't want to be involved in evil tongue or gossip. Because I think it's brought down society in many ways-it's like a cancer. So that leaves more time for reading books. Doesn't it?»

-Madonna
Vanity Fair
October 2002 p.362

THE WARHOL PARADOX

«With his portraits paintings and films, Warhol almost single-handedly revived one of the most ancient practices in painting as well as returned the focus of art to the human being. It's almost ironic, since Andy Warhol was widely characterized as cold and inhuman, but clearly he was fascinated by personality.»

-Glenn O' Brien
Andy Warhol by Andy Warhol
Astrup Fearnley Museum
p.62

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WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«I have nothing to say»

-Anish Kapoor

MADONNA

For all her success, by mid-1994 she was undoubtedly a damsel in distress. «Very few people came to my rescue. It was an incredibly eye-opening experience» she said of the period. So given that Madonna's life is an almost classic exemple of contemporary fairy tale, it would not be complete without a couple of knights riding to her rescue. Since, however, this is also a post-modern fairy tale, in which poses are struck and principles deemed passé, it is suitably ironic that the saviors of this icon of agressively sexy strong, modern womanhood should be a pair of old-fashionned gentlemen, in the unlikely shape of a cricket-loving English knight and an elderly american writer. Like a latter day Don Quixote, the rotund, heavy-jowled figure of Norman Mailer was first into battle, gallantly wielding his literary sword in her defense in a piece in Esquire magazine in August 1994. It was a timely reminder to the nation's intellectual and cultural elite that Madonna belonged to the tradition of Andy Warhol and artist who had examined the void while attempting to push back boundaries and challenge orthodoxies, particularly regarding the eternal themes of sex and love. «We have among us our greatest living female artist» Mailer prononced portentously.

-Madonna
Andrew Morton
p.202

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY:RECTITUDE POLITIQUE

Aujourd'hui existe le concept d'obésité morbide. Et la pauvreté morbide? La laideur morbide, la connerie morbide, ça n'existe pas?

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WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Just say no to family values and don't quit your day job»

-John Giorno