«I NEVER READ. I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»

«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

Hirst recognised the emergence of a new kind of wealthy art buyer that the contemporary art world of other artists, dealers, curators and gallery owners had been slow to serve. As well as artistic interest, they bought for fun, or status, or as an investment. One prominent customer was Steve Cohen, hedge fund manager and billionaire, who bought Hirst’s shark sculpture, giving him the publicity he was looking for.What else: Hirst felt the established art world had an ever narrower definition of works of art. He identified a new “what” – in this case, images, symbols and signs that buyers could acknowledge as unique, whether or not they were attracted to them. He proved that there was a multimillion-dollar market for art work incorporating elements such as rotting meat and all manner of other “unique” materials that stretched boundaries.
How else: Hirst understood that in the value chain of the art market (idea creation, production, exhibition, gallery, art dealer, museum), the role of the curator as the one who selects and often interprets works of art for exhibitions was increasingly important. In a market that lacks objective criteria and therefore transparency, Hirst appreciated the new importance of the curator and was the main organiser and artist-curator of a student exhibition, Freeze, which became instrumental in creating a new generation of artists that became known as Young British Artists.

-Financial Times

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

IT'S USELESS TO BE YOUNG WITHOUT BEING COCKY

«I LIKE MONEY ON THE WALL»

Warhol is now the god of contemporary art. He is indeed, it is said, the «American Picasso» or, if you prefer, the art market's one man Dow Jones. In 2010 his work sold for a total of $313m and accounted for 17% of all contemporary auction sales. This was a 229% increase on the previous year-nothing bounced out of recession quite like a Warhol.

Intelligent Life magazine
November/December 2011

«I LIKE TO SEE STARS»

B and I spent the afternoon sitting on a couch in the lobby of the Grand Hotel in Rome, watching the Stars and their hairdressers go up and down the marble staircase. It was just like watching a play.

-The philosophy of Andy Warhol

«I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART»

Cover album by Joan Miro

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

« I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music»

-Joan Miro

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

ETRE CHIC AUJOURD'HUI

Dans les années 1980 le summum du chic était de pouvoir lire Arianna Huffington dans Interview magazine. Aujourd'hui c'est de pouvoir lire Bernard Henri Lévy dans le dernier numéro de Égoiste. Va savoir....

«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

«The gallery had a wonderful exhibition of old movie posters, like garbos for the twenties, the huge beautiful posters that were printed in German, they're about 8' by 10'-things like the original King Kong and Charlie Chaplin. I always bought the smaller American movie posters and they're just not worth anything. The original Cassandre posters are selling for $35 000. Can you believe it? And when I think of how I let them slip through my fingers. A print of one is about $5000 or $10 000. Posters. Can you believe it?

-Andy Warhol
The Andy Warhol diaries
February 2 1979

IT'S USELESS TO BE YOUNG WITHOUT SHOWING OFF!

«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LIKES RIGHT NOW LIKE AMERICA DOES»

François Sagat to record a song.

-Next!

«I NEVER MET AN ANIMAL I DIDN'T LIKE»

FEMALE ACTING TALENT IN THE 21st CENTURY

Lindsay Lohan will pose for Playboy. Like Kim Kardashian before. Only the sex tape will be missing. It shouldn't be too long....

STRAIGHT GUY IS THE NEW GAY

BRAIN? WHO CARES!

«I ran into the model I fixed Paige up with and gee, he's so good-looking. Paige said that he was just an airhead, but here is this beautiful boy with muscles and a chest and perfect teeth and from New Jersey and you could mold him into anything, get him started reading or anything

-The Andy Warhol Diaries
November 27 1985

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS JEWISH ART COLLECTOR JOSEPH MUGRABI CORNERING THE WARHOL MARKET GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

Cover album for Jellybean 1984

THE BEGINNING OF INTERVIEW MAGAZINE

Back in the fall of 1969, frustrated over not being able to get free tickets to the New York film festival and looking for something to give Gerard to do, Andy had casually started an underground movie magazine called Andy Warhol's Interview editied by Malanga.

Warhol
Victor Bockris
p.450

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE DISNEY WORLD WILL HAVE A NEW PAVILLON CALLED «THE NIKKI DE SAINT PHALLE AND JEAN TINGUELY WORLD.

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example»

-La Rochefoucauld

«I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART»

Album cover by David Lachapelle

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: DEBATE

A doctor will earn more than $170 000 a year. The real debate about inegality is not 1% versus 99%. It's the 0.0000025% having way too much influence on government policies.

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: HOT MARKETING MOVE: KIM & CHRIS TO REMARRY UNDER A TENT AT OCCUPY WALL STREET FOR ANOTHER COOL 20 MILLIONS!

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»

Tommy Hillfiger buys 2006 Damien Hirst painting for 1.4 million.

-Next!

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:JEWISH MAG: IS SARKOZY CALLING NETANYAHU «MENTEUR» GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

IT'S USELESS TO BE YOUNG WITHOUT SHOWING OFF!

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE MCDONALD'S RESTAURANTS WILL ASK ANISH KAPOOR TO CREATE SCULPTURES TO REDECORATE ITS RESTAURANTS

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«It would be strange for me to think I’m being ripped off, because that’s what I do! In those days, it was called "pirating." Now they call it "sampling."

-Richard Prince

«MUSCLES ARE GREAT: EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THAT THEY CAN SHOW OFF»

«I GREW UP A CATHOLIC AND I DON'T FEEL ANY DEMONS»

«Andy's earliest experiences of art was of religious art-it may not have been very good art, but unlike for many protestants or those outside the churches whose experiences of art may have been limited to museums, for Andy, art and religion were linked from a very early age. While Warhol was working on his huge series of paintings of the Last Supper, showing Jesus surrounded by his apostles at dinner before a table laden with bread, wine and fish, Warhol himself was quietly helping to serve meals to the homeless at the Church of Heavenly Rest in New York.

-Jane Daggett Dillinger
The religious art of Andy Warhol

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: STOCK EXCHANGE

Everybody knows that we are no longer living in a traditional capitalist society. We live in a casino capitalist system. And far as casinos are concerned, the House always wins. Interesting how the House has no name when we talk about the Stock market...

IT'S USELESS TO BE YOUNG WITHOUT BEING BEAUTIFUL AND VICE VERSA

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

«It's funny, liberals are the easiest people to offend. My career has been based on offending liberals. That's who comes to my films. So they come, waiting to be offended. And they're so easy to offend, much easier than conservative people»

-John Waters
In Touch magazine
March/April 1985

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: ARE KOREAN OWNED FOREVER 21 STORES GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising.»

-Jeff Koons

«I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART»

Rolling Stones cover album by Andy Warhol

LOS ANGELES

«They picked me up at 6:00 to take me to the set. The same cute driver. I wish he was a fairy, but he isn't. He's trying to make all the girls. And they all have Barbie doll bodies! You can't believe them. No hips and big tits.

-The Andy Warhol Diaries
March 29 1985

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS THE FINANCIAL RESCUE OF EUROPE BY CHINA GOOD FOR THE JEWS?