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, April 30, 2014
POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE PROSTITUTE ROBOTS WILL GIVE FREE BJ ALONG HIGHWAYS AS TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS CAUSED BY STRESS
«I BELIEVE IN TELEVISION. IT'S GOING TO TAKE OVER FROM THE MOVIES»
” I want a late night show; I want a late, late, late, late night show where we would call it Nobody’s Watching, Who Gives a F---, Let’s Have Fun. And I’d like to put it on at 3 in the morning—people would Tivo it. It’s a different world now. Nobody watches in real time.
-Joan Rivers
«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»
"The greatest lesson that I've ever learned in my life was to realize that I can have an effect, that I can change things that maybe need to be changed."
-Keith Haring
Monday, April 28, 2014
«EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL»
La marque des grands artistes se révèle toujours à travers une capacité d'émerveillement jumelée à une attitude de distance contemplative.
PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: LOVE & SEX
If you still confuse love and sex at 40, it's because you didn't have enough sexual partners during the last 20 years...
POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE PRO WRESTLING WILL HAVE AN IRANIAN TEAM CARRYING A GIANT PLASTIC MISSILE FORBIDEN TO CROSS A RED LINE ON THE WRESTLING MAT DONE BY THEIR AMERICAN/ISRAELI OPPONENTS
LE JEU DU MARCHÉ DE L'ART.
Outre leurs qualités esthétiques propres, il est indéniable que la cote sur le marché de l'art de Jean Michel Basquiat ou de Keith Haring tient aussi en partie à leur association passée avec Warhol. Or ce n'est pas du tout le cas d'un Francesco Clemente qui fut pourtant également associé à Warhol et Basquiat dans les années 1980. Les limites des critiques d'art ou des propriétaires de galleries en ce qui a trait à leur capacité d'influencer à la hausse ou à la baisse la valeur donnée d'un artiste, c'est précisément cela...
Saturday, April 26, 2014
«A BOY IS BUTCH IF HE WEIGHS OVER 170 AND HE'S AN ALL AMERICAN FOOTBALL TYPE, A SPILLING-OUT MASCULINE MAN».
«THERE SHOULD BE A COURSE IN FIRST GRADE ON LOVE»
Aimer c'est toujours en quelque sorte se sentir responsable.
LYCÉE FRANÇAIS....
(Andy Warhol with Jodie Foster)
AW: How did you get the great frog accent?
JF: Mon Dieu! I don't know. I go to a french lycée. It's great, man. All the teachers are like 21 or 22
and have long hair and beards and everything. Being in this school, you don't have to do anything»
Interview magazine
January 1977 p.6
«I THINK THE YOUTH OF TODAY ARE TERRIFIC»
«Well, I mean when the book first came out it was not a bestseller, but it got good reviews and at that point I was done writing about Andy, done talking about Andy....but now, I kind of love it (laughs). All these smart, attractive young people think I'm cool! So here I am a guy in his sixties with all of these interesting friends in their twenties. It's very stimulating and keeps me very much in the present.»
-Bob Colacello
POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE FASHION DESIGNERS WILL CREATE «SIGNATURE CARDBOARD BOX» FOR THE HOMELESS
IDÉE.....
Ce qui serait vraiment bien serait de voir Xavier Dolan porter la vie de Keith Haring à l'écran...
«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»
Flipping is the backbone of the art market now; dealers just have less ability to freeze out collectors who flip now. At the most recent Armory show here in New York, there was a spectacular tiny Louise Bourgeois painted print. (Really tiny! Like, four by six inches?) They wanted $55,000 for it. The last time it traded hands was just a year or two ago, though, and then its price was something like $35,000. And yet it's still a great place to park some money for a little while. The market for Bourgeois will always be good: she was a legend, with a long and sturdy career, well-supported by dealers and collectors and institutions. She isn't a 27-year-old with paintings being snapped up by the armful and dumped at auction. The road of the art world is piled high with bodies of young artists who had a fast boom and a bust. That's to be expected. But if the new collectors want to treat painters like startups, they'll get the same kinds of return on their investment as they do with startups. The vast majority of artists will fail and evaporate all their invested value. A small percentage will soldier on, for a while, but only as long as the market will have them.
-The awl.com
WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY
“I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”
-Madonna
Friday, April 25, 2014
Thursday, April 24, 2014
PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: RELIGION
On a oublié que le problème majeur aujourd'hui est que l'on peut arriver à 25 ans sans jamais avoir
été exposé à la vigoureuse confrontation philosophique et théologique des dogmes auxquels on croit?....
ANDY WARHOL & PAUL MORRISSEY
«If a cool detachment as always been one of the keynotes of Warhol's art, Paul
Morrissey is just the opposite. He seems to thrive on being right in the thick of the action,
seems to relish directing his actors and handling the camera, and even bickering and grappling with Jackie.»
-Ed Mc Cormack.
Interview magazine
Vol 2 Number 2 p.23
1970
«GOOD CATHOLIC BOY»
«But I'm a Catholic. Being catholic is just being honest and serious and nice. Isn't everybody?»
-Andy Warhol
Interview magazine
April 1978
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
THE BEAUTY OBSESSION
In the fifties, there were the really good-looking people and then all the rest who weren't. Today, everybody is at least attractive. How did it happen? Is it because there's no wars to kill the beauties?
-The Andy Warhol Diaries
August 16 1982
WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY
«Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner you'd better have a good hand»
-Woody Allen
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»
Back in 1882, the British businessman-cum-art speculator Thomas Holloway, using the best art advice that money could buy, splurged £6,615 on “The Babylonian Marriage Market” by Edwin Long, an auction record at the time for any living English artist. The painter and the painting are now forgotten.
-New York Times
April 20 2014
POST WARHOL PREDICTION: WOMEN MAG: HOW TO MINIMIZE YOUR EXPRESSION LINES WHEN SAYING «Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii» TO YOUR FRENEMY!
ARNOLD ON MUSCLES AND THE GAY QUESTION
Arnold Schwarzenegger is straight as a die. Why then he consented to this Blueboy interview? «Gays are like bodybuilders. Everyone stereotypes them and makes all kinds of assumptions about them. For a lot of years I've been categorized. I have suffered from being stereotyped so I feel for what it must be like to be gay. People meet me and they have already made up their minds about me because I'm a bodybuilder. It has hurt me». Arnold pauses and continues, «I respect gay men, communicate with them, associate with them»
Blueboy magazine
Nov/Dec 1977 p.45
Blueboy magazine
Nov/Dec 1977 p.45
Monday, April 21, 2014
WHY BEING HOT, YOUNG AND DUMB IS THE BEST THING!
«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
PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: BOTOX
Men don't want 50 year old with Botox. They want 20 year old without.
PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: MEN
Un seul coup d'oeil au monde gay masculin et tous les discours empreints de rectitude politique
sur les hommes volent en éclats....
THE FUTURE OF PLASTIC SURGERY AND FASHION TRENDS
LOOK ASIAN FOR SUMMER!
LOOK BLACK FOR FALL!
LOOK LATINO FOR WINTER!
LOOK WHITE FOR SPRING!
Sunday, April 20, 2014
LIFE 101 FOR THE YOUNG AND DUMB
«Car la jeunesse sait ce qu'elle ne veut pas avant de savoir ce qu'elle veut».
-Jean Cocteau.
Saturday, April 19, 2014
SUCCESS: FORGET ABOUT TALENT & POSITIVE THINKING CRAP. IT'S ALL ABOUT LUCK!
KH «I was totally unaware of the Depression. I kept thinking: «What is wrong with everyone?» I was in Hollywood making movies, and lucky, lucky, lucky.»
-Luck has something to do with it, but talent and beauty also.
KH -Mostly luck.
Katherine Hepburn (considered to be the most important actress of american cinema)
Interview magazine
Sept 1985 p.218
Friday, April 18, 2014
PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: GEOPOLITICS 101
The best way to learn about geopolitics is by having interracial sex. All the rest is irrelevant.
IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST
April 18 2013
Gee, Jean-Michel's work is really selling now. I guess it helps that he dated Madonna back then.
And, oh all the kids are so good-looking now. Why? Went to the office. Worked on my blue Justin Bieber licking a stripper's tit painting till 8:00. I should really do more chinese stuff, and just tell them it's very expensive.
WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY
«The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.»
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld.
PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: L'INDICE
Le meilleur signe que le porno est devenu mainstream. Plus aucune marque n'est choquée de voir
ses produits figurer dans les films xxx sans son consentement.
PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: SEXUAL REVOLUTION
Was the sexual revolution really to end up having 8 year old girls reading about the sexiest dress, shoes and bags of their favorite stars?.....
Thursday, April 17, 2014
POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS THE DISCOVERY OF A NEW HABITABLE PLANET OUTSIDE THE SOLAR SYSTEM GOOD FOR THE JEWS?
POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE AIR CONDITIONED BURQA WILL BE SOLD AT GALLERIES LAFAYETTE IN PARIS
MARCHÉ DE L'ART
J'aime les euphémismes du marché de l'art. Comme si les difficultés éprouvées par les oeuvres de prix moyen ne s'appelaient tout simplement pas la disparition de la classe moyenne...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
POST WARHOL PREDICTION: WOMAN MAG: HOW TO MINIMIZE YOUR EXPRESSIONS WRINKLES WHEN LOOKING AT ANNA WINTOUR WEARING THE SAME DRESS TWICE!
«PEOPLE NEED TO BE MADE MORE AWARE OF THE NEED TO WORK AT LEARNING HOW TO LIVE»
«Look at Andy. All of a sudden he is gone. All I have to remember and keep him alive is all of the things he left. Everything, every memory becomes invaluable, timeless. But the «things» will survive me, the memories wil die with me»
-Keith Haring
Journals
p.123
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE JENNIFER ANISTON AND ANGELINA JOLIE WILL BE THE STARS OF THE FAMOUS LESBIAN KISS FOR THE REMAKE OF «THE HUNGER»
Monday, April 14, 2014
«PEOPLE NEED TO BE MADE MORE AWARE OF THE NEED TO WORK AT LEARNING HOW TO LIVE»
Si vous ne trouvez pas plus vertigineux de considérer quelqu'un ayant dit «Bah, j'ai tout mon temps» en 1736 que quelqu'un qui a vécu il y a 10 000 ans, alors quelque chose de la notion de temps vous échappe.
«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»
London's red-hot property market is not alone in attracting wealthy foreigners. The capital’s art market is also booming, as millionaires from overseas pour money into trophy assets.
The value of art exports from the UK climbed 7pc to £10.5bn in the year ending April 2013, the highest level for five years, according to Thomson Reuters.
The Telegraph
BRUNO BISCHOFBERGER
«In 1969 I was one of the founding partners of Interview magazine, with twenty-five percent interest. I maintained my stake until 1986, when I traded it with Andy for a group of paintings. In 1971, I published Andy‘s Electric Chairs portfolio, which was printed in Zurich. I was also the producer of L‘Amour, a Warhol movie which was shot mostly in Paris in 1970, though it was not edited and screened until 1972.»
-brunobischofberger.com
Sunday, April 13, 2014
«I DON'T THINK LESS IS MORE, I THINK MORE IS MORE»
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.
-The Wall Street Journal
August 30 2013
-The Wall Street Journal
August 30 2013
C'EST MOI!
«I meet them everywhere, people who started graduate school and left it, OK? They’re in publishing, they’re in media, they’re in all kinds of jobs, because they couldn’t stand it. They wanted to study literature and art, but had every obstruction put in their paths. They not only had to read Lacan, Derrida and Foucault, who had nothing to do with literature, but they had to read critics talking about Lacan, Derrida and Foucault, none of whom are philosophically trained, okay?»
-Camille Paglia
WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY
«I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. »
-George Carlin
Saturday, April 12, 2014
LA NOUVELLE VULGARITÉ
Acheter des parts d'une oeuvre d'art comme on achète des actions à La Bourse. Décidément,
on repousse sans cesse les limites de la vulgarité. Même une satire de Tom Wolfe ne serait pas suffisante...
JUST GET IT DONE
Both Andy and Man Ray, with whom I worked in the seventies, taught me the same thing; don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide whether it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they're deciding, make even more art.
Warhol
Makos p.112
KARL LAGERFELD SUR ANDY WARHOL
Karl Lagerfeld a confié dans Le Figaro Madame qu'il n'avait rien à voir avec Warhol, même s'il reconnaît son talent. « [Etre comparé à Warhol] Ça ne me plaît pas du tout. Mes cheveux sont à moi pour commencer ! Je l'ai connu, j'ai même tourné pour lui, il était très gentil mais pas drôle du tout, un pousse-au-crime, un voyeur épouvantable. J'admire ce qu'il a fait, il est devenu le roi de la pop culture alors qu'il était un dessinateur de mode très moyen, mais je n'ai rien à voir avec lui, rien », déclare le styliste dans Le Figaro Madame.
ANDY WARHOL ON MOVIES
«It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how you feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it. When they show you how to kiss like James Dean or hook like Jane Fonda or win like Rocky, that's great».
-Andy Warhol.
America
RIGHT ON!
My favourite moment in The Birds is when Tippi Hedren in her fur coat and high heels mischievously ferries a bird cage in a rowboat across the bay and second when she sits tensely smoking near the schoolhouse as crows ominously gather on the jungle gym behind her.
-Camille Paglia
«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»
Damien Hirst to publish his autobiography.
-Next!
Wednesday, April 09, 2014
Monday, April 07, 2014
POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE A TV SHOW CALLED “15 MINUTES ARE UP” WILL REUNITE MONICA LEWINSKY, WILLIAM HUNG & CHRIS CROCKER
Sunday, April 06, 2014
«ART IS A SPIRITUAL QUEST» -CAMILLE PAGLIA
The glittering New York crowd that Andy Warhol loved paid tribute to him yesterday at one of his favorite New York places. More than 2,000 people crowded into St. Patrick's Cathedral for a memorial mass honoring the late artist.
They came from the worlds of art, fashion, society and entertainment, and some of their names were among the world's most droppable - Halston, Liza Minnelli, Ann Bass, Klaus von Bulow, Claes Oldenburg, Grace Jones, Richard Gere and Prince and Princess Michael of Greece.In an altar banked with tulips and forsythia, the Rev. Anthony Dalla Villa, the celebrant, eulogized Mr. Warhol, who died Feb. 22 after a gall-bladder operation, as ''a simple, humble, modest person, a child of God who in his own life cherished others.''
Father Dalla Villa said that Mr. Warhol was able to ''take the very simple and ordinary objects of life and make them truly extraordinary.'' He added, ''He was the Christian gentle man, the Christian gentleman.'' 'Fooled the World'
The service emphasized Mr. Warhol's sprituality and passion for his Catholic religion. The Rev. C. Hugh Hildesley, pastor of the Church of the Heavenly Rest, wrote a tribute in the program that described how Mr. Warhol habitually spent Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter at the church, serving food to the homeless. John Richardson, the art historian and critic, said Mr. Warhol had ''fooled the world into believing that his only obsessions were money, fame and glamor, and that he was cool to the point of callousness.'' But he was, in fact, ''more of a recording angel,'' Mr. Richardson said. ''The distance he established between the world and himself was above all a matter of innocence and of art.''
-NEW YORK TIMES
April 2 1987
Saturday, April 05, 2014
«I AM A GOOD CATHOLIC»
«More and more I see Andy as a religious artist for a secular society»
-Bob Colacello
«I WANT MORE FAME»
«He really elevated fame to a higher level. Fame is more famous now than it was before there was Andy. People can get more famous and fame is more meaningful now»
-Fran Lebowitz
1980
«EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL»
«He's interested in absolutely everything. It's a wonderful kind of naïveté»
Liza Minelli on Warhol.
THE SECRET OF THE ART MARKET REVEALED!
He was the last of the speakers at the TEFAF art market symposium last week, a diminutive young man with a heavy French accent who wasted no time introducing himself with flourish. “We have analyzed millions of data,” he announced, “and we have discovered the secret of the art market.”
Seated towards the front of the audience, I rolled my eyes and crossed my arms, dropping my pen into my lap. This was not going to be worth taking notes about, I thought. The guy’s a pompous idiot.
The speaker, however, not noticing me, continued, eager to announce his extraordinary findings.
“Prices,” he said, “go up.
“And down.”
The audience laughed. They also knew that he was right.
-Forbes
March 26 2012
Friday, April 04, 2014
PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: ANIMAUX
Chaque fois que je désespère de la stupidité du genre humain, je me tourne toujours vers les animaux.
Ça me calme immédiatement.
«ANDY THOUGHT A LOT ABOUT JEWS» -BOB COLACELLO
Marek Halter. « Les questions juives », comme disait le grand poète Goethe, sont « les thermomètres d’humanité de l’Humanité » Si on veut savoir le degré de l’humain dans une société, il faut voir comment cette société traite sa minorité juive. En France aussi, il y a la montée d’antisémitisme. Il y a la dégradation de l’humain aujourd’hui dans le monde. On n’a plus d’idéologie, on n’a plus d’espoir, on n’a plus de morale universelle. Avant, il a eu des idéologies : communisme, socialisme, conservatisme, même fascisme. Aujourd’hui il y a le djihad. Les seuls qui sont prêts à mourir pour quelque chose, ce sont les fanatiques musulmans.
Lire la suite: http://french.ruvr.ru/radio_broadcast/5646129/270790630/
EXPLAINING WARHOL
If you want to know everything aout Andy Warhol just look at all the most important things in life: love, sex, money, time, death, work, fame. There's nothing behind it.
Wednesday, April 02, 2014
L'OBSESSION DE L'ARGENT
Salvador Dali avait l'habitude de dire qu'il se revendiquait de la monarchie non pas au sens politique mais bien métaphysique. Dans un sens, cela nous rappelle Schopenhauer disant que l'argent c'est le bonheur dans l'abstrait et que quiconque ne pouvant plus trouver de bonheur dans les choses concrètes se dévoue alors entièrement à ce dernier. À quand une déclaration commune de Koons, Murakami et Hirst pour affirmer haut et fort la dimension métaphysique de leurs cotes sur le marché de l'art...
POST WARHOL PREDICTION:THE FUTURE OF WOMAN MAG AD: HOW TO IMAGINE (AD SPACE) BAGS, (AD SPACE) SHOES & GET MULTIPLE ORGASMS EVERY TIME!