LIFE 101 FOR THE YOUNG AND DUMB
“Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.”
-Hermann Hesse
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.
“Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.”
L'âge doit servir à comprendre que vendre est un bien plus grand plaisir qu'acheter. Sinon on vieillit inutilement.
Only 31 Keith Haring murals still in existence worldwide.
Increasingly, the artworks on display are just as enormous, requiring cranes and teams of workers to display. Museums were once the only potential buyers for such room-filling pieces, but over the past decade an influx of wealthy collectors around the world has started buying ever-larger art trophies. All of it has prompted dealers to seek out artists whose work is hefty enough to stand out from afar—a prioritizing by size that never occurred in past generations, dealers say.
En marchant sur la rue une sans-abri m'adresse la parole:« As tu un peu de monnaie...mon amour»
«What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.»
Money to buy things is how the poor think. Money to buy time is how the rich think.
«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.»
« All success really is, any kind of success no matter what field you're in, that you never comes in contact with assholes. That's beyond wealth and reviews».
«I have all kind of paintings. I have surrealist paintings, I have cubist paintings, abstract expressionism,
«I never fall in love. I am just in love with my job. I think it's much more important to love your work. I think for a man to be in love with his job, that's the real thing».
«The false dichotomy between the elitists and the populists is one that drives me up the wall».
The most important question in geopolitics now: The silence of China about Syria.....
Damien Hirst to collaborate with Alexander McQueen.
The most important question to ask yourself before buying a painting: would a jewish hedge fund manager would like it for his Park Avenue apartment? If yes, buy it.
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«I always think churches would get more people if they charged admission. Tickets at the door.
Harvard Lampoon parody of Cosmopolitan magazine
Daniela Morera: Favorite object?
Le plus grand apport de l'Internet c'est d'avoir permis de s'informer sans passer par l'insupportable look cloné d'une présentatrice de nouvelles télé souriant béatement du début à la fin.
«If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes. "
Un homme hétérosexuel c'est quelqu'un qui devient plus intelligent avec l'âge. Un homme gay c'est
Les photos de mode devraient s'inspirer davantage des jeux d'acrobatie à la plage version Venice Beach années 1950. Elles seraient moins ennuyantes...
«With age comes wisdom but sometimes age comes alone».
Karl Lagerfled Google search
«I asked Anita how the really glamourous women went to bed with men, what did they do, and she said the only one she really knew about was somebody out in Hollywood who, when the moment would come, would kneel down on the floor and pray to God to forgive her and then he guys would get turn off and ashamed of themselves and they'd give her jewels.
After I introduced Steve to Andy-who waited until the 54 bandwagon got rolling before he jumped on-a new element
«Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born»
«Love is suffering. One side always loves more»
Une vitesse minimale sur les trottoirs. Voilà qui serait un véritable progrès.
A 20 year old gay man without culture is charming. A 50 year old gay man who never read is just pathetic...
An image is worth 1,000 words: No matter how illustrious our resumes, how brilliant our ideas, how Calvinist our work ethic, we are judged by how we present ourselves. Research shows that it takes four minutes to make a first impression, and, according to a widely cited study by UCLA professor Albert Mehrabian, body language accounts for 55% of that impression (38% comes from tone of voice; the remaining 7% from our actual words).
«There should be courses on beauty and love and sex. With love as the biggest course. And they should show the kids I always think how to make love and tell and show them once and for all how nothing it is. But they won't do that because love and sex are business».
En fait quand on s'y attarde un peu, Takashi Murakami ressemble beaucoup plus à Keith Haring
«Andy always had young people around him at all points of his life. Fresh blood with fresh ideas. It
You can have the sex life of a Jack Nicholson even if you don't have the money to buy the Beverly Hills Mansion that goes with...
«It was just exploding. All kinds of new things were starting. In music, it was the punk and New Wave scene. There was a migration of artists from all over America to New York. It was completely wild. And we controlled it ourselves. There was the group of artists called COLLAB-Collaborative Projects-doing exhibitions in abandoned buildings. And there was the club scene -The Mudd Club and Club 57 at St Mark's Place in the basement of a Polish church, which became our hangout, a clubhouse, where we could do whatever we wanted. We started doing theme parties-beatnik parties that were satires of the Sixties and parties with porno movies and stripteases. We showed early Warhol films. And there was this art out on the streets. Before I knew who he was, I became obsessed with Jean-Michel Basquiat's work».
«I don't want to go to Heaven. None of my friends are there»
«Bob Rauschenberg was at the opening and Joseph Beuys and Hans Namuth and it was like a busy sixties day. And I forget how attractive artists are. They really are attractive»
«Others artists have been accusing me of selling out since my paintings started selling. I mean, I don't know what they intended me to do: Just stay in the subway the rest of my life? Somehow that would have made me stay pure? By 1984 the subway thing started to backfire, because everyone was stealing the pieces. I'd go down and draw in the subway, and two hours later every piece would be gone. They were turning up for sale»
«At the time I was hanging around with a lot of graffiti artists, Futura 2000, Keith Haring and Jean -Michel Basquiat. Jean-Michel introduced me to Andy Warhol. I remember we were all at a japanese restaurant on Second Avenue and Seventh Street, where Keith had done a bunch of drawings on the walls, and Jean-Michel was telling me how jealous he was of me being on the radio. Because he thought that I had a more accessible form of art, and more people would be exposed to it. Andy told him to stop complaining....I was introduced to Keith by a roommate, but I had already seen his work on the streets, subways and buildings. Then we started hanging out at Dancetaria, and Mudd Club and Roxy. The Rock Steady Crew was there.We'd dance, we'd watch break-dancing crews there and on the streets»
«It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.»
Difficile d'imaginer une oeuvre plus sous-évalué sur le marché de l'art que celle de Claes Oldenburg.
Damien Hirst to have first retrospective exhibition in the Middle East.
«I could earn more money if I just painted a few things and jacket up the price. My shop is an extension of what I'm doing in the subway stations, breaking down the barriers between high and low art»
In 1978, four years before he would be invited to broadcast his messages on the Times Square Spectacolor screen as part of the Public Art Fund’s “Messages to the Public” (1982–1990), a 20-year-old Haring was already expanding his practice into New York City’s streets and subways. The current exhibition’s “Public Spaces” section begins with an early series of “Cut-Ups” (1980) inspired by William S. Burroughs’s Dadaist literary technique of the same name. Motivated to challenge mainstream mass media, Haring used New York Post headlines to create provocative messages like “Reagan: Ready to Kill” and “Pope Killed for Freed Hostage.” Like Holzer, who began posting anonymous “Truisms” and “Essays” around lower Manhattan in the late 1970s, Haring’s earliest interventions involved plastering lampposts and newsstands with absurd and seditious collaged texts.
«Chez moi, la lecture est une maladie grave, une pathologie obsessionnelle !»
L'argent est fait pour régler des problèmes d'argent, un point c'est tout. Et être heureux c'est ne pas avoir de problèmes que l'argent ne peut pas régler.
Her apartment in New York still contains all the records of her past apparently: “It’s like a museum. My Warhols — the ones he did of me, a series of small hamburgers, and photographs and Polaroids, because we spent so much time together. Keith Haring, Mapplethorpes, a lot of Jean-Michel [Basquiat]. They all follow you around the room, like eyes.”We talk about Warhol’s legacy on the commercial art world of today. “What Andy did do was make it possible for artists to make money while they were still alive. This was his genius. But he was very generous with me. That whole lot just loved doing art, you know — it was more about that. Creating.»
Kim Kardashian afraid to be forgotten.
If young people want to be faithful but cannot and old people want to be unfaithful but no longer can what does 45 year old men & women want? I guess they want to be faithful and unfaithful at the same time because they can do both.
«The only reason to play hard is to work hard, not the other way around like most people think»
Kanye West en couverture du magazine Officiel Hommes avec Kim Kardashian. Ce même Kanye
Always work hard and always hope life might give you one day what would would like the most. It will never happen, but it will keep you busy.
Aujourd'hui en France les débats sur les place des divers communautarismes se font fort nombreux. Or quelle ne fut pas ma surprise écoutant l'un de ces débats, d'entendre un rabbin dire que le communautarisme musulman et le communautarisme juif ne pouvaient en rien être comparables puisque le communautarisme musulman concerne «l'individu religieux» alors que le commuanautarisme juif ne concerne quant à lui que «l'individu». Et le communautarisme juif hassidique, il concerne quoi exactement? Une absence de connotation religieuse peut-être? Aucun progrès sur cette question des communautarismes ne sera possible tant que cela ne pourra pas être discuté en toute objectivité.
«I don't think Studio 54 is like Pagan Rome. I think it's like junior high school. All the girls look at what the other girls are wearing and all the boys see who can get laid the most»
«Your next thing should be even more jewels, more everything, more glamour».
«If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.»
Great people achieve things because they lack self-esteem not because they have it.
I still don't know which way I prefer when reading about the biography of some famous person. ( 1940-) or (1940-?)...
"The American Dream involved some pretty basic stuff. A good job where you felt some security. A good education... People felt if they worked hard they could get there... I don't think people went around saying to themselves, 'I need to have a 10,000-square-foot house'... I think, there has also been a shift in culture. We weren't exposed to the things we didn't have in the same way that kids these days are. There was not that window into the lifestyles of the rich and famous. Kids weren't monitoring every day what Kim Kardashian was wearing, or where Kanye West was going on vacation, and thinking that somehow that was the mark of success."
Barack Obama slams Kim Kardashian
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