THE WARHOL ATTITUDE: SO BAD IT'S GOOD

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: WOMAN MAG: HAVE A WARDROBE MALFUNCTION AT YOUR NEXT JOB INTERVIEW AND GET A MAN!

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: CULTURAL DIFFERENCE

The French and the Americans always have a strange love-hate relationship. Normal. For one age is something «you are» for the other, something «you have». Every misunderstanding starts from there.

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

THE INTERNET AS WARHOLIAN IDEA

The Internet is a Warholian idea, his friends say. It's a place of unlimited possibility and instant gratification. "The concept of being able to release whatever you want to say, to say whatever you want to say however you want to say it, and have the potential to reach such a large number of people instantly" is the essence of Warhol, Bockris says. "He was always very impatient to get out what he was saying." He'd have enjoyed push-button publishing.He would also have liked how the Internet has changed the nature of fame.

-Washington Post
August 16 2009

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: ISLAM VS JUDAISM

Islam vs Judaism: People of one book vs people of many books.

«I NEVER FEEL HORNY»

IF YOU THINK WE MIGHT HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON...

yvan.petit@gmail.com

DAMIEN HIRST ET LA CRITIQUE D'ART: LA LEÇON WARHOL

Aujourd'hui Damien Hirst n'est plus la coqueluche du monde de l'art qu'il fut à ses débuts. Mais l'histoire nous apprend que comme tout le reste, cela ne sera que passager. De Warhol on a dit que toute sa production après les années 1960 ne présentait guère d'intérêt. Puis on a redécouvert d'abord  la beauté de ses grands autoportraits sur fond noir. Ensuite ce fut ses portraits des années 1970, puis sa dernière période et ses collaborations avec Haring et Basquiat. Enfin aujourd'hui, c'est son immense production commerciale passée pour des magazines ou des pochettes d'albums que l'on redécouvre avec enthousiasme. Hirst suivra une courbe similaire. Les séries de papillons seront les premiers à être redécouverts pour leur valeur esthétique. Et comme Warhol ce sera ensuite sa création de pochettes d'albums de disque qui relança l'intérêt pour son oeuvre à l'avenir. L'association avec le monde de la musique ne ment jamais.

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

PARFUM

Dans un grand magasin aujourd'hui un vendeur «mode» s'adresse à deux femmes qui passent devant le comptoir: «un nouveau parfum élégant comme vous mesdames» Les deux femmes continuent leur chemin en rigolant. Elles auraient du répondre: «et toi tu es hétéro! »

I GUESS THAT'S WHY CAMILLE PAGLIA PREFER GEORGE LUCAS TO ANY CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ARTISTS....

-Are you saying that art is dead?

Warhol: Oh, sure.

Forum magazine
January 1981 p.23

IS HETERO SEX COMING BACK? -«IT NEVER WENT AWAY» -ANDY WARHOL

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: TIME

Why is watching any movie older than the year you were born so scary...?

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her»

-Oscar Wilde

«PEOPLE IN UNIFORM ALWAYS LOOK SO GREAT»

FUTURE INVENTION AMÉRICAINE POUR LE 21 UNIÈME SIÈCLE

“Cette semaine j'ai vu à la télévision une femme entrer et disparaître dans une machine qui émettait des radiations. C'était merveilleux parce que la matière est énergie et que cette femme s'est littéralement volatilisée. Il pourrait s‘agir d‘une invention américaine, la plus grande invention américaine, pouvoir disparaître".

-Andy Warhol

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE A COSMETIC COMPANY WILL LAUNCH A FACE CREAM CALLED «À LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU»

«NO ONE ESCAPES THE MEDIA. MEDIA INFLUENCES EVERYONE»

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

Madonna made 32 millions with her MDNA tour.

WHY SMART & BEAUTIFUL GIRLS LOVE TO GET FUCKED BY DOUCHEBAGS

«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.»

-Camille Paglia

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: GAY MEN

If you still think that gay men are more interesting than straight men, you didn't update your facts since at least 30 years...

L'OBSESSION DE LA BEAUTÉ

«Il faut surtout que le résultat soit accessible, qu'il provoque une réaction, agréable ou désagréable, mais rapidement. Mes chansons sont souvent agressives, elles ne sont pas là juste pour être belles. Pour moi, la beauté est partout. L'agressivité peut être belle. En même temps, j'ai vraiment envie d'aller vers le plus grand nombre. Ce que je fais, c'est de la pop.»

-Pierre Lapointe

«I'M NOT MORE INTELLIGENT THAN I APPEAR»

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

Rihanna celebrates her 25th birthday.

-Next!

WHEN TOO MUCH COLLEGE PUBLISH OR PERISH MAKES YOU DUMB

In May 1985, Andy Warhol was interviewed by the modernist art historian Benjamin H.D. Buchloh. Throughout the interview, Buchloh tries to situate Warhol’s work in relation to that of earlier avant-garde artists, to Duchamp, Man Ray, Matisse, Yves Klein, and Francis Picabia, among several others. Warhol eludes every such attempt on Buchloh’s part to create a modernist pedigree for his art. “No, well, I don’t know” Warhol would say or “No, well, I didn’t think that way.” When asked specifically about the artistic impact of meeting Duchamp in the 1960s, Warhol responds “No, I didn’t know him that well.” And, in a moment of terrifically unambiguous rejection, Warhol answers a question about the influence of Picabia on his drawings of the 1950s by telling Buchloh that “I didn’t even know who that person was” at the time.

-Richard Meyer

ANDY WARHOL ON PRO WRESTLING: «IT'S ENTERTAINMENT, IT'S SHOW BUSINESS, IT'S CHIC»

LIFE 101 FOR THE YOUNG AND DUMB

«Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.»

-Paul Géraldy

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

BEFORE BONNIE FULLER, US WEEKLY AND «STARS ARE JUST LIKE US»

Andy Warhol: Oh, can I take some  pictures of you eating pizza?

Diane Lane: Sure.

-Interview magazine
 February 1981 p.21

LIZ...

«I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?»

-Elizabeth Taylor

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

LIFE 101 FOR THE OLD AND SAGGING

«Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.»


-Henry Ford

MADONNA ON NEW YORK IN THE 1980'S

"It's not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket. But it doesn't feel alive, cracking with that synergy between the art world and music world and fashion world that was happening in the 80s. A lot of people died."

Vanity Fair
May 2008

YOUTH IS MADE TO SHOW OFF

BEFORE OR AFTER MADONNA?...

«And now Jean Michel has this blonde WASP girl that he's fucking. I think he hates all white women».

-The Andy Warhol Diaries
Nov 1 1983

WARHOL AS «BLUE CHIP ART» INVESTMENT EXPLAINED

«People always say you should buy what you like, but actually you should buy what's valuable»

-Andy Warhol
 Interview magazine
 September 1976 p.12

«I LOVE ALL MUSIC: CLASSICAL, COUNTRY, OPERA, EVERYTHING»

BETTER THAN GAY MARRIAGE

«I'm married to my dog. That's what you should do»

(Andy Warhol to Jodie Foster)
Interview magazine january 1977 p.6

«I THINK THE YOUTH OF TODAY ARE TERRIFIC»

Millennials have a high degree of trust in their society’s institutions. A Pew Research Center study found that Millennials are “more supportive of business than their elders. A higher percentage of Millennials than other cohorts agrees that ‘business corporations generally strike a fair balance between making profits and serving the public interest.’” This feeling is shared by 44 percent of Millennials, compared with 35 percent of Gen Xers and Boomers and 32 percent of the Greatest Generation. We don’t blindly trust these institutions; we understand their limitations and know that greed and corruption are inevitable, and thus we are not shocked by scandals and crises.

The same spirit of pragmatic idealism is responsible for the Millennials’ optimistic attitude about their economic prospects, even in the depths of a lingering recession that has hit our generation hard and diminished our prospects of finding our first jobs. A Pew study found that although Millennials’ “entry into careers and first jobs has been badly set back by the Great Recession … they are more upbeat than their elders about their own economic futures as well as about the overall state of the nation.”

www.salon.com
Feb 16 2013

«POP ART IS FOR EVERYONE»

LA MODE FRANÇAISE EXPLIQUÉE

«French women if they're chic have the dykey look».


-Andy Warhol Diaries
Nov 29 1982

«EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE A FANTASY»

GAY VS LESBIANS EXPLAINED

Every single thing lesbian feminists are fighting for, gay men are destroying it...

«THERE SHOULD BE A COURSE ON FIRST GRADE ON LOVE»

«Toute déclaration d'amour est une déclaration d'éternité»

-Alain Finkielkraut

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

FAME

«Fame might be the best aphrodisiac but I wasn't famous enough to excite anyone except the rare individual. Where I was younger and less celebrated I had more success. Youth boosts the appeal of even quite mediocre fame. In any event it's women who are more susceptible to the lure of power and money. Men like youth and beauty. Straight men might envy or compete with male sucesss but gay men seek out trophy boys».

-Edmund White

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: ARE DRONES GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

«I JUST THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS THE BEST MESSAGE»

THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

«I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.»

-Robert Mapplethorpe

LIVING 101 BY ANDY WARHOL

«I think people make too much of eating, anyway. They spend too much time thinking about it. I guess
it's all business. It's what living's about. You make money to spend money-do you want some champagne?

-Andy Warhol
Interview magazine
July 1978 p.8

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

«THERE SHOULD BE A COURSE ON FIRST GRADE ON LOVE»

The most romantic persons are never to be found among women or gay men. They are to be found among straight guys.

«ATHLETES REALLY DO HAVE THE FAT IN THE RIGHT PLACE AND THEY LOOK YOUNG IN THE RIGHT PLACE»

BUSINESS 101 FOR THE YOUNG & DUMB

«It's rare that you see an artist in his 30's or 40's able to really contribute something amazing. Of course they are some people who are innately curious, forever little kids in their awe of life, but they're rare»

-Steve Jobs
 Playboy magazine
 Feb 1985 p.58

LIFE 101 FOR THE OLD AND SAGGING

«An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young»  -Oscar Wilde

«I JUST THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS THE BEST MESSAGE»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: FAST FOOD

Why McDonald's doesn't have great replica of giant Claes Oldenberg burgers in its restaurants?

«I'M A GOOD CATHOLIC»

Ah! Le Pape! Sera intéressant de voir laquelle de ces deux priorités l'emportera lors de l'élection du prochain. Un pape noir en Afrique pour contrer la montée de l'Islam là-bas ou un Pape latino-américain pour contrer les efforts de conversion des évangélistes protestants auprès de l'immense majorité catholique de l'Amérique du Sud. 

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«I NEVER READ. I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»

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

Madonna on Instagram.

-Next!

«THERE SHOULD BE A COURSE IN FIRST GRADE ON LOVE»

Discutant de l'amour Alain Finkielkraut avait un jour cette formule d'une grande justesse:  l'amour
s'épuise, mais il y a des êtres inépuisables.

YOUTH IS MADE TO SHOW OFF

TALK ABOUT A MISTAKE!

In 1958 the Museum of Modern Art declined the donation of a «Shoe» drawing. Warhol had yet to attain the notoriety of, say, Jackson Pollock or Robert Rauschenberg. But today the pre-Pop works-the drawings of cats, fairies and gold shoes, for example-are among the most difficult to find items.

Art News
January 2002 p. 109

DEFINITION OF JEFF KOONS ART

A post gay kitsch esthetic of artist Pierre & Gilles repackaged for rich straight hedge funds manager desperate to appear «cool» .

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE THE HOTTEST REALITY TV SHOW WILL BE CALLED «REAL COCK SUCKING GOLD DIGGERS OF BEVERLY HILLS»

COPYRIGHT BY IVAN

PLASTIC TOWN

«You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.»

-Michael Jackson

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

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

There are a lot of differences between the various generations of queers, like how the older ones grew up reading Cosmo while the newer ones only bother with serious financial digests and video games. But I feel the main contrast lies in underlying attitudes towards sex. Old queens grew up with very little gay visibility in the media and a heightened sense of gayness being something taboo and even (in society's eyes) sinful and downright sick. They came of age feeling that gay was something to hide or to "get over," and often felt more attracted to anonymous, shame-based sex than to open, long-term connections.Those hoary attitudes still pop up, but mainly the younger gays have grown up with queer iconography everywhere they turn and with gay marriage seeming to become an eventual reality as society progresses. They have healthier views about sex and seem unencumbered by the urgency to hide and slink around in dark alleys. In fact, they generally want long-term relationships more than their predecessors did (though they'll gladly spice up those relationships with shameless online hookups, albeit often with their partner's permission--or even inclusion

Michael Musto.

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

Madonna selling her Beverly Hills home for 22.5 millions.

-Next!

ANDY WARHOL ON PRO WRESTLING: «IT'S ENTERTAINMENT, IT'S SHOW BUSINESS, IT'S CHIC»

«I'M A GOOD CATHOLIC»

«But I'm a Catholic. Being catholic is just being honest and serious and nice. Isn't everybody?»

-Andy Warhol
Interview magazine
April 1978

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: LOVE

Beautiful, smart  young and rich people always want to be in love. Fat, old, ugly, boring, and stupid people always say they don't believe in love. I wonder why....

«ATHLETES REALLY DO HAVE THE FAT IN THE RIGHT PLACE AND THEY LOOK YOUNG IN THE RIGHT PLACE»

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

John Waters confesses he has always been drawn to both high-brow and low-brow culture. It's the middle he tries to avoid. "I am more comfortable, high or low, definitely," Waters says with a laugh. "I'm always nervous when I see people mall-walking."

-Lancaster Online

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

DRAG QUEENS

«Candy herself reffered to his penis as «my flaw». There was always the question of what to call the drags-«him» or «her» or a little bit of both. You usually just did it intuitively. Jackie I always called «him» since I've known him before he went into drag, and Candy Darling and Holly Woodlawn were «her» because they were already in it when I met up with them»

-Popism
 The Warhol Sixties
  Andy Warhol & Pat Hackett
 p.224

ANDY WARHOL AND THE END RESULT OF HIS INVENTION OF THE WORD «SUPERSTAR»

COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE: Do you think any girl are out of your league?

THE SITUATION: «I don't think any girl is out of my league. I pretty much believe I'm a superstar»

«I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD BE BUGGED ALL THE TIME...BUGGED AND PHOTOGRAPHED»

LIFE 101 FOR THE YOUNG AND DUMB

Never fuck anyone over 30 if they don't have books at home. It won't worth it.

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life: now that I'm old, I know it is»

-Oscar Wilde

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

In 1986 Haring opened his Pop Shop in New York to sell works printed on commercial objects like buttons and t-shirts. Two years later, he opened an international version in Tokyo, a space made out of two shipping containers welded together to form one large room. By the summer of 1988, the Tokyo shop closed.Haring was quoted saying, “there are just too many Haring fakes available all over Tokyo and, this time, they’re really well done.” After 20 years of business, Hering also closed the New York Pop Shop when rent became too high. New York Magazine quotes Amy Cappellazzo, then the co-head of contemporary art at Christie's, 'This is such an end of an era,' she said of the shop's folding, 'Once you can’t walk on Lafayette and see the shop, it’s the end of personal nostalgia, and the beginning of history.'

Now you can see a rotating display of the objects sold in his Tokyo Pop Shop at theNew York Historical Society. The ceiling of the Haring's New York Pop Shop hangs over the Society's admissions entrance, and the exhibit will display a number of objects on loan from the Keith Haring Foundation.

-Huffington Post

MARCHÉ DE L'ART

Le marché se mondialise au sommet dit-on. Certes, mais là n'est pas la vraie question. Qui lancera les artistes de 2030 ou 2050? Le goût des collectionneurs Indiens, chinois et arabes ou celui des collectionneurs juifs tels que Broad, Lauder, Cohen, Mughrabi ou Saatchi aujourd'hui ? Là est  la seule vraie question qui compte en ce qui a trait aux contours du futur marché de l'art.

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

KEITH HARING CRAWLING BABY

«The crawling baby could really be a good daily comic strip»

-Andy Warhol
 Interview magazine
 Dec 1984 p.129

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«L'art contemporain doit faire rire»

-Ben

«ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS»