THEWARHOLINFLUENCE.COM
The blog about the ongoing influence of Andy Warhol's philosophy in the 21 st century. From art to instant fame, sex, beauty, celebrity gossip obsession, business or fitness why we live in a Warholian world more than ever.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: 20th CENTURY VS 21st
20th Century: old and smart, young and dumb
21st century: old and dumb, young and smart.
«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LIKES RIGHT NOW LIKE AMERICA DOES»
Kim Kardashian made 18 millions with her marriage.
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WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits.”
-Kyle Minogue
PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: GOVERNMENT
Big business don't want less government intervention. They want less government intervention if it doesn't help them directly and the status quo if it does so. The Tea Party please them when they talk about less government for social program to help the poor. But someone who would talk about putting and end to «too big to fail» in the financial sector will never, ever win an election.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way"
-Marcel Proust
«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»
Talking to my respondents, one of the things that struck me was how many students talk about being shy or feeling unprepared for social situations and that alcohol is a resource for them to let their guard down. One of my respondents told me that "alcohol takes a few bricks out of the wall." Mine is not a nationally representative survey, and a lot of my findings should generate hypothesis for larger-scale research, but if you take my informants at their word, there are a lot of shy people with some social phobias, and alcohol helps them to, as some of them describe it, let "the real me come out."
They're more likely to say and do things [when they drink] that they normally wouldn't do -- show affection to their peers, get angry at them, get more emboldened to sing and dance and take risks and act crazy and there's a ton of laughing that goes on. It creates this world of adventure. It creates war stories. It creates bonding rituals. When things go wrong -- the getting sick, the getting arrested, the getting upset -- it gives them an opportunity to care for one another, to deliver social support. So you've got young adults who, for the first time, are taking care of a sick person, staying up all night with them, consoling them when they're upset. It's an opportunity for them to try on adult roles.
-Salon
August 28 2011
DAMIEN HIRST ET L'ARGENT
«Oui, sans aucun doute. J'en ai eu peur pendant longtemps. Quand j'étais petit, je n'en avais pas. Mes parents ont divorcé quand j'avais douze ans. Je vivais avec ma mère, et on s'est retrouvé avec l'électricité coupée... Des choses comme ça. On était la famille la plus pauvre du quartier. J'ai dû trouver une raison d'exister sans argent. C'est là que j'ai trouvé l'art. L'art pour l'art. Plus tard, mon manager, Frank Dunphy m'a poussé. On pouvait faire de l'argent avec l'art. Vous pouvez dire "je m'en fous de l'argent", mais quand vous vendez une oeuvre pour 10.000 pounds - et c'était beaucoup d'argent à l'époque -, vous ne pouvez plus être indifférent. Puis les prix montent. Vous buvez beaucoup. J'ai vendu une oeuvre (4) à Charles Saatchi pour un million de pounds. J'ai appelé Frank et je lui ai dit : "Ça peut pas valoir 1 million de pounds." Il m'a répondu : "Ça vaut ce qu'une personne est prête à mettre pour l'acheter."
-Le Point
April 7 2010
SOIS BELLE ET TAIS-TOI!
«When you just see somebody on the street, they can really have an aura. But then when they open their mouth, there goes the aura. "Aura" must be until you open your mouth.»
-The philosophy of Andy Warhol
«I LIKE TO WORK WHEN I'M NOT WORKING»
«Even if I'm tired I can work, so why not? Really, what else is there, after all?
-Keith Haring
Journals p.167
WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY
"That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen."
-Charles Bukowski
Saturday, August 27, 2011
PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: CONFLICT OF CIVILIZATION EXPLAINED
Except for the US every country whose culture is now nothing more than «tone your butt, get flat abs, get new boobs, lose 5 pounds, etc, is in sharp demographic decline. Meanwhile the muslim word hostile to that, have a demographic boom. The culture of seduction capitalism as the only religion left, creating an epidemic of single people in the Western world vs Muslim family values whose whole culture is englobed by religion.
«I NEVER MET AN ANIMAL I DIDN'T LIKE»
«God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.»
-Pablo Picasso
PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: ARTISTS NOW
Hirst: Warhol in the sixties
Koons: Warhol in the eighties
Murakami: Warhol in the seventies
À LA LENNY BRUCE
Facebook: goyim
Twitter: jewish
Apple: jewish
Apple without Steve Jobs: goyim
Dell : goyim
Michael Dell: goyim
Bill Gates : goyim
Bill Gates philnthropic work in Africa: jewish
«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LIKES RIGHT NOW LIKE AMERICA DOES»
Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux move in together.
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Thursday, August 25, 2011
«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»
Apple's new CEO Tim Cook not only might be the most influential technology leader in his new position, but also the most powerful gay man in America. Cook has never publicly commented on his sexuality, but Gawker reports that it's generally known within the Apple and Silicon Valley circles that he's gay. Out Magazine named him its most powerful gay or lesbian person of 2011. In its profile, it wrote "Although Tim Cook has chosen to be discreet about his sexuality, just know that Apple's heir apparent is gay sends a compelling message of the opportunity to thrive in the workplace. That's a big deal."
-International Business Times
THE 32 SOUP CANS
When Irving Blum who owned the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, paid Andy a visit in May 1962, he found him kneeling next to the glowing television with the radio and the record player blasting opera and rock simultaneously, painting his sixteenth portrait of a soup can. «What happened to your cartoons?» asked Blum , who had seen his paintings of Superman a year earlier. Oh, replied Andy nochalantly «Lichtenstein was doing them better so I'm not doing them any more. Now I'm doing these» and he explained that his intention was to paint all thity-two varieties.
Warhol
Victor Bockris
P. 171
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LIKES RIGHT NOW LIKE AMERICA DOES»
Mariah Carey to appear on X Factor.
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PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: ARTIST
A true artist is someone who have leftists values with right wing work ethic and criteria of quality
Monday, August 22, 2011
WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY
«We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.»
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»
«But what exactly is culturally nourishing in young people's environment? Design has become a substitute, but design has no spiritual message, it has no spiritual content to it. And I maintain that art has a spiritual dimension, and that is what has not been acknowledged in the way literature has been taught in this period of deconstruction for the past 30 years. And this is terrible and crippling for young people.»
-Camille Paglia
PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: ART ET RELIGION
De tous temps les plus grandes oeuvres d'art ont été le fait d'artistes aux prises avec un fort questionnement religieux. Pas étonnant que dans notre monde occidental post-religieux autant d'oeuvres d'art contemporaines apparaissent aussi fades et dépourvus d'intérêt...
POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE KIM KARDASHIAN & KRIS HUMPHRIES WILL CREATE A SERIE OF POST NUPTIALS SEX TIPS VIDEOS
Sunday, August 21, 2011
THE BEAUTY OBSESSION
«The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.. his eyes are closed.»
-Albert Einstein
STRAIGHT GUYS
-CP: Heterosexual men have a very taunting, jeering and to me stimulating way of talking to each other. A lot of women and gay men find it too harsh and get their feelings hurt
-«I need to be around men. Growing up, I always had female friends and enjoyed conversation with women. But I enjoy male camaraderie -guys getting together, goofing on each other, being brutal, taking about women almost like they're inanimate objects. And that's the whole emphasis of my humor. What I'm doing is what I was raised with. When I hung around with guys, this is how we talked. And this is what I genuinely find funny»
-Howard Stern
The Advocate
Dec 28 1995
DOING THINGS
I really don't care that much about "Beauties." What I really like are Talkers. To me, good talkers are beautiful because good talk is what I love. The word itself shows why I like Talkers better than Beauties, why I tape more than I film. It's not "talkies." Talkers are doing something. Beauties are being something. Which isn't necessarily bad, it's just that I don't know what it is they're being. It's more fun to be with people who are doing things.
-The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»
The humanities have destroyed themselves over the last 30 years....Erudition is not a value in any recruitment for a position in the humanities in the United States today...It is ludicrous to imagine that the best education in the humanities is to be had at any of the elite schools at this particular moment... The entire educational system in the US is deranged. It's absolutely deranged. I think it's a terrible hamster wheel for kids ... It's grotesque.
-Camille Paglia
Saturday, August 20, 2011
PUBLISHING....
«Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publication»
-Fran Lebowitz.
JEWISH QUESTION
«How can a Berkowitz kill a Moscowitz? »
-Andy Warhol
Interview magazine
September 1977
Friday, August 19, 2011
Thursday, August 18, 2011
«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LIKES RIGHT NOW LIKE AMERICA DOES»
David letterman gets death threat
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
JOAN COLLINS
Worked on the Michael Jackson Time cover until 8:00. Then watched some terrible TV. I saw Joan Collins in some old movie like Caesar and she was so bad, and now she's got the right part and she's so good. It was all just finding the right part.
_The Andy Warhol Diaries
March 6 1984
HARING ON WARHOL
«He adressed the phenomena of the camera and recorded image in a way that Duchamp only hinted at. He challenged the whole commodity-oriented direction of the Art world by beating them at their own game. He became a teacher for a generation of artists now, and in the future, who grew up on Pop, who watched television since they were born, who «understand» digital knowledge»
Keith Haring
Journals
p.117
«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LIKES RIGHT NOW LIKE AMERICA DOES»
Prince Harry and girlfriend split?
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Monday, August 15, 2011
«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»
-«Listen, I don't want to be unfair to my homosexual friends, because I have a couple who are friends, whom I like very much, as they are pleasant people, they're intelligent people. But there is a form of fanatism in them, of dogmatism, of exhibitionism, Of Mafia sense, all what I despise. I mean, why should I reject it in political parties and accept it in the homosexual party?
-How are homosexuals a party ? Or a Mafia as you put it?
Fallaci: Listen, I should say this in Italian. When I'm tired my english becomes lousy. This sense of comradeship which exists among, for instances, certain sporting people, or certain followers of an ideology, like the Communists. The Communists among themselves, whatever language they speak, they feel brothers. It's the sense of the parties, the strenght of, the real sense of the party. The homosexuals are the same. But theirs goes beyond the comradeship. It's kind of mafia, and when they get together, for instance, in the artistic field, they are terrible, much worse than the members of a political party. Terrible, they use it, they're very strong. And I do not want to be obliged to love them. I live my way, they live their way, to hell with it. But don't oblige me to love them»
-Orianna Fallaci
Playboy magazine
November 1981
POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS CHINA WANTING TO BE «THE NEW FRIEND» IN THE MIDDLE EAST GOOD FOR THE JEWS?
Sunday, August 14, 2011
MADONNA & JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
«She came up to me at a party and asked me to introduce her to «that beautiful black boy in the corner» rcalled Ed Steinberg , who produced her first video «Everybody». At the time Basquiat who would later become known for his wild dreadlocks was sporting a dyed-blond punk hairdo. The affair would be intense and brief ending in part over his drug addiction.
-New York Magazine
October 14 1991
Saturday, August 13, 2011
«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»
-Q: Well, what kind of women do you attract?
-A: Bus spotters and stamp collectors.
-Elton John
Playboy magazine
January 1976 p.59
WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY
«To me designer jeans is a concept at odds with itself. It's like educational television. They cancel each other out»
-Fran Lebowitz.
Friday, August 12, 2011
«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»
5. Ian Fleming ( 1908 – 1964 )
It shouldn’t be a surprise that the one that created James Bond, a character surrounded by beautiful women, was also a ladies man. Women could not resist him, Fleming managed to seduce then by talking four languages. ” I have never met someone that has so much sex with his brain like Ian”. Although he loved women, it seams that he didn’t loved them enough since he used to said that women are like pets, and only men are human beings.
WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY
«Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life. »
-George Burns
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
«I THINK CATHERINE DENEUVE IS SO GREAT»
«I'm a Libra-the passive, love-prone». Unlike most of her cinematic contemporaries , Catherine maintains a resolute attitude toward fame: « When things are not good, I wait. Good things happen to you-you don't provoque them. On sex appeal: Keep a certain class, but look erotic»
-Playboy magazine
October 1965 p.91
WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY
“I am disappointed that my parents didn't give birth to a porn star”
-Rufus Wainwright
PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: FANATISME
Le fanatisme religieux ne commence pas DANS la tête. Il commence SUR la tête...
Monday, August 08, 2011
LIFE
I wonder what will be the meaning of hapiness and unhapiness the day people are going to be immortals....
PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: CHIC
Chez Sotheby's et Christie's on ne dit pas d'une oeuvre que tout grand collectionneur serait heureux de l'acquérir, de l'acheter ou encore de l' avoir. Beaucoup trop rop vulgaire. On dira plutôt: Voilà une oeuvre que tout grand collectionneur serait heureux «d'accueillir» dans sa collection.
PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: DEFINITION
I like Fran Lebowitz definition of our times as the «Blind Art Collector» era. But sometimes I think it could also be called the «3 stars» era. Jen, Brad and Angelina. Damien, Takashi and Jeff. Over and over and over again...
Sunday, August 07, 2011
«THERE SHOULD BE COURSE IN FIRST GRADE ON LOVE»
-Playboy: How many lovers do you think it takes for a woman to get good in bed?
-About five. As least it took five for me before I wised up and learned that «Roll over» isn't just an expression you say to a dog. Finally, I got my information from reading books: girls didn't talk to one another. Going down? I never knew what men were talking about»
-John Rivers
Playboy magazine
November 1986 p.60
Saturday, August 06, 2011
WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY
«I am stunned than the two greatest desires apparently of people involved in gay rights movement is gay marriage and gays in the military. Really?»
-Fran Lebowitz
Friday, August 05, 2011
«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»
Damien Hirst to exhibit his spot paintings in 12 Gagosian galleries simultaneously in 2012.
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WOMEN IN REVOLT
The cultural elite--women and men--will be pleading for the plumbers and the construction workers. We are such a parasitic class.I began to realize this in the Seventies when I thought women could do it on their own. But then something would go wrong with my car and I'd have to go to the men. Men would stop, men would lift up the hood, more men would come with a truck and take the car to a place where there were other men who would call other men who would arrive with parts. I saw how feminism was completely removed from this reality. I also learned something from the men at the garage. At Bennington, I would go to a faculty meeting and be aware that everyone hated me. The men were appalled by a strong, loud woman. But I went to this auto shop and the men there thought I was cute. "Oh, there's that Professor Paglia from the college." The real men, men who work on cars, find me cute. They are not frightened by me, no matter how loud I am. But the men at the college were terrified because they are eunuchs, and I threatened every goddamned one of them.
-Camille Paglia
The Playboy Interview
1995
BODY
«So many people have such great bodies today that the sort of lumpy, sit-around-the-house flab that used to be «normal» now looks really bad. You can't go anyplace in America without seeing boys and girls and men and women who look like they've been professional athletes their entire lives»
-Andy Warhol
America.
Thursday, August 04, 2011
WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY
«The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. »
-Elizabeth Taylor
ART MARKET
I went to Sotheby's to see how my drawings were doing. Early 1962 drawings. Fred had been there bidding on them so that drove the price up, but some other guy got them. It's all dealers who put the stuff in and bit it up. It's their business. All the people who have the work just bid it up.
-The Andy Warhol Diaries
May 10 1984
Wednesday, August 03, 2011
FASHION MAGS
I had a job one summer in a department store looking through Vogues and Harper's Bazaars and European fashion magazines for a wonderful man named Mr. Vollmer. I got something like fifty cents an hour and my job was to look for "ideas." I don't remember ever finding one or getting one.
-The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Monday, August 01, 2011
PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: MEDIAS
Talk about overexposure! Memo to traditional media. You don't win against fragmentation of audiences by putting Lady Gaga on every possible magazine cover in the last 3 months. By the way how about lady Gaga wearing everyday clothes now? That would be really shocking!
«THERE SHOULD BE COURSE IN FIRST GRADE ON LOVE»
Men are more concerned with their partner's body type than women but they also seem to value family more highly, according to a survey released recently.Nearly half of men questioned in the poll of 70,000 people said they would ditch a partner who gained weight, compared to only 20 per cent of women. Two-thirds of men also said they had fantasized about their partner's friends, while only one-third of women had done so."Even as men are getting more comfortable with meeting their girlfriends online and less anxious about who she's 'friending' there, other romantic behaviours have proven to be timeless ones: chivalry isn't dead, size matters, and women forgive while men forget," said James Bassil, editor-in-chief of AskMen, which conducted the poll jointly with Cosmopolitan.com. While only 18 per cent of women said they would want their mate to be better endowed, more than 51 per cent of men said they wished they themselves were.The survey also found 39 per cent of men chose family as their top choice of the ultimate status symbol. By contrast, 43 per cent of women selected a beautiful home, compared to only 6.5 per cent of men. One-quarter of women named a successful partner as a top status symbol.
-Reuters
July 31 2011