«IF EVERYBODY'S NOT A BEAUTY THEN NOBODY IS»
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.
«It's strange the way having money isn't much. You take three people to a restaurant and you pay three hundred dollars. Okay. Then you take those same three people to a corner shop-shoppe and get everything there. You got just as filled at the corner shoppe as at the grand restaurant-more, actually and it cost you only fifteen or twenty dollars and you had basically the same food».
-I hope she will never discover I get «serviced» regularly by gay men because she's so bad at sucking dick.
At first, Andy Warhol, for exemple would go out to dinner and wouldn't know one end of that long
People say we are what we have. They're wrong. We have what we are...
«I have no special message. I wish I did. It would be great if I had one. I just think entertainment is the best message. So we try to be funny».
«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.»
You really can see the class of the store you're shopping at by the way the cashier gives you back your change. The poor gives you the paper money and then the coins on top. The rich always do the opposite.
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...
After Clifford Still and Barnett Newman, will the blue chip art glass ceiling be broken with Helen Frankenthaler?
La prochaine fois que vous entendez quelqu'un dire «non veut toujours dire non», rappelez-vous simplement que cette personne ne connaît alors absolument rien à la sexualité et au jeu de la séduction.
« Like any religious convert I have discovered the internet terribly late. The more interested I got in the site, the more I thought it could be a useful outlet - showcase, whatever - for artists who don't have dealers. Let them deal directly with collectors. Scanning a website to see work by an artist halfway across the world is the lazy way to do it, but probably the only effective way. »
“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.»
L'enjeu est de taille et les oeuvres triées sur le volet pour les cessions 2014, avec 72 lots chez Christie's le 13 mai et 81 lots chez Sotheby's le lendemain, dans des fourchettes d'estimations publiques comprises entre 80 000 et 30 m$. Les lots phares de Christie's incluent un triptyque majeur de 1969 signé Francis BACON Three Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards et Race Riotd'Andy WARHOL (voir les Brèves du 18 avril 2014 : Bacon - Warhol - Ai Weiwei), un chef-d'oeuvre de Jean-Michel BASQUIAT , jamais sorti de sa collection depuis 1982 et estimé entre 20 et 30 m$ (Untitled, 172,7 x 261,6 cm, Christie's), un Jackson POLLOCK , intitulé Number 5 (Elegant Lady, 1951), estimé 15-20 m$.
«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».
Warhol thought it would have been very glamorous to be reincarnated as a big diamond on Elizabeth Taylor's finger. Maybe Liz secretly wished to be reincarnated as very glamorous Warhol painting to be sold at Sotheby's after all...
«I don't think there should be sex changes»
Madonna pose seins nus pour le l'Uomo Vogue Italia.
«Catherine wanted to go to Cowboys. It's so great in there, a black hole with all boy beauties and all available»
«Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.»
“I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.”
J'adore contempler l'idée de quelqu'un s'étant levé un matin et qui s'est dit:"Bah, j'ai le temps»! En 1342...
If you're a conservative you can be fat if you're a man (Karl Rove, Rush Limbaugh) but you have to be thin if you're a woman (Ann Coulter). If you're a liberal that's the opposite.
Madonna censored by Anna Wintour?
PAGLIA: I understand when men complain about women giving mixed messages, because women have given me a lot of mixed messages. I understand the rage that this can cause.
In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
«Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time. »
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Ce à quoi une personne de bon goût ou un soi-disant intellectuel ne doit pas normalement s'intéresser pour être bien vu, ce que un artiste dit sérieux ne doit pas normalement aimer, je vais vous montrer que c'est en fait ce que vous aimez. Je ne ferai pas semblant d'aimer ce que j'aime. J'aime vraiment ce que j'aime. Et encore mieux que cela, je deviendrai riche et célèbre en vous le vendant....
On the surface Warhol's art seems to deny uniqueness, but look at any one of his works and you will encounter a singular, hand-made, human object. Even his Brillo Boxes are hand painted, with slips and mistakes. Our failure to see the uniqueness of Warhol is part of our culture's frightening loss of sensitivity to real art and life - a loss that Warhol saw coming, and mourned.
«I ultimately think my career as an actress will outlive all my other careers».
«There are few things easier than to live badly and die well».
Madonna in studio with Natalia Kills.
«At the same time, there's more media every day: cable TV, satelllite TV , new magazine starting up every minute. And with more media, they need more celebrity and more news to have something to talk about».
«Le but c'est l'impossible. Il faut que ce but reste toujours dans l'esprit. Autrement on est fichu»
Playboy: Would you classify sex among your wants wherever you go?
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