WHY THE RICH SHOULD NOT SHARE THEIR MONEY WITH THE POOR

«I don't think everybody should have money. It shouldn't be for everybody-you wouldn't know who was important. How boring. Who would you gossip about? Who would you put down? »


-The philosophy of Andy Warhol

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY

20th century; dress your age

21st century: talk your age

«I NEVER READ I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

«The limp watches are also a prefiguration of Christ, because they resemble the soft cheese that obsessed me, and Dali has discovered that the body of Jesus is the same as cheese. This is no only Dali: the first man who talked about this was Saint Augustine, who once compared the body of Christ to mountains of cheese»

-Salvador Dali
Playboy magazine
July 1964 p.42

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE SOTHEBY'S AND CHRISTIES WILL SELL «MEDICIS AURA» TO THEIR BLAZÉ BILLIONNAIRE CLIENTS

YOUTH IS MADE TO BE COCKY AND SHOW OFF

BEING 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

«I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE ARTIFICIAL STOPS AND THE REAL STARTS».

«My life is a theatre».

-Lady Gaga

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

ANDY WARHOL BY PLAYBOY MAGAZINE

«The Chelsea Girls is a movie only because it appears on film in a movie house. It is a peep show, a freak show, a horror show. It says life's like that or, anyway Andy Warhol's life».

Playboy Magazine
April 1967

LIFE 101 FOR THE YOUNG AND DUMB

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” 

«I NEVER READ, I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»

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

Chris Brown and Rihanna «having fun» together.

-Next!

STEREOTYPES

Perez Hilton: a gay guy calling himself «the queen of all media»
A 100 meters final at the Olympics: 8 black guys at the starting line every four years
Dominique Strauss-Kahn: a jewish guy heading a financial organisation
Lindsay Lohan:a past lesbian relationship involving alcool and drug problems
Arnold Scharzennegger: a high achiever in different careers with a very high libido


Remember. Stereotypes DO NOT EXIST....

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: SCHOOL

Why are male high school dropouts always so good looking?

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE A FRENCH DESIGNER WILL LAUNCH A NEW COLLECTION OF “PRÊT À BAISER"

«YOU CAN'T GO ANYPLACE IN AMERICA WITHOUT SEEING BOYS AND GIRLS AND MEN AND WOMEN WHO LOOK LIKE THEY'VE BEEN PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES THEIR ENTIRE LIVES»

«I'M NOT MORE INTELLIGENT THAN I APPEAR»

«He was so complex, yet he said he was so simple».

-Vincent Fremont.

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

«I LIKE MONEY ON THE WALL»

Jeff Koons’ stainless-steel “Balloon Dog (Orange)” was just one of the pricey auction items that broke records at auction last year. It sold for a whopping $58.4 million.

Sales of contemporary art at public auctions surpassed $2 billion for the first time last year, the Paris-based arts-data organization Artprice said.

The report tallied auction sales between July 2013 and July 2014, and it found that contemporary art sales grew 40 percent from the previous year. The number of big-ticket items that sold for over 10 million euros ($12.8 million) more than doubled in the period.

-New York Observer.

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

«I LIKE TO WORK WHEN I'M NOT WORKING»

«Inspiration comes from working»

-Karl Lagerfeld

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

« Je sais que la poésie est indispensable, mais je ne sais pas à quoi.  »

-Jean Cocteau

«YOU CAN'T GO ANYPLACE IN AMERICA WITHOUT SEEING BOYS AND GIRLS AND MEN AND WOMEN WHO LOOK LIKE THEY'VE BEEN PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES THEIR ENTIRE LIVES»

«I WANT TO BE MATISSE»

A blockbuster Matisse exhibition disproving the myth that his famous cut-outs could be made by a child has broken all Tate records, eclipsing Damien Hirst to become the most popular show in its history.

Tate has announced Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs is the first exhibition ever to have more than half a million visitors, with 562,622 members of the public walking through its doors.

-The Telegraph

 Sept 15 2014

«EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL»

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is just a way to keep from drowning. It's just common sense»

-Georges Carlin

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

Aimer, c'est tout simplement se sentir responsable.

YOUTH IS MADE TO BE COCKY AND SHOW OFF

KIDS

«Andy needed to have contact with at least four of five kids a day.  He loved smart ones as much as beautiful ones, but if they were dumb, he'd say ' Oh God, not another one'.

Warhol by Christopher Makos
p.34

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...

«ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS»

ANDY WARHOL EXPLAINING HIS POLITICAL POSITION

«We've been in Italy so much, and everybody's always asking me if I'm a communist because I 've done Mao. So now I'm doing hammers and sickles for communism and skulls for fascism».

High Times magazine
August 1977

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.”

-Imelda Marcos

«I THINK AMERICAN WOMEN ARE ALL SO BEAUTIFUL. I LIKE THE WAY THEY LOOK, THEY'RE TERRIFIC»

TRUMAN CAPOTE ON ANDY WARHOL

« He seemed one of those hopeless people that you just know nothing's ever going to happen to...Just a hopeless born loser the loneliest most friendless person I've ever seen in my life»

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

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

«If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.»

-Camille Paglia

HOW TO TREAT YOUR WIFE

«Slept late and then Thomas Ammann woke me up to do a portrait. A beautiful wife with a fat husband. I said she didn't need any makeup. She was easy to do because she was a raving beauty. Her husband tells her she's ugly-Thomas says that's how Swiss people treat their wives because they never want them to get too secure».

The Andy Warhol Diairies
Feb 11 1980

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

NO PAST AND NO FUTURE

«There's no country in the world that loves «right now» like America does. I guess so many things are happening today that we're too busy to do anything but look, talk and think about all of it. We don't have time to remember the past, and we don't have the energy to imagine the future: we're so busy we can only think: Now!»

-Andy Warhol

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

Le réalisateur Xavier Dolan a créé la polémique par des propos tenus dansTélérama du 3 septembre. Il y évoque la Queer Palm, qui couronne chaque année à Cannes des films questionnant les identités sexuelles : « Que de tels prix existent me dégoûte. Quel progrès y a-t-il à décerner des récompenses aussi ghetoïsantes, aussi ostracisantes, qui clament que les films tournés par des gays sont des films gays ? On divise avec ces catégories. On fragmente le monde en petites communautés étanches. La Queer Palm, je ne suis pas allé la chercher. Ils veulent toujours me la remettre. Jamais ! L'homosexualité, il peut y en avoir dans mes films comme il peut ne pas y en avoir. » 

-Le Monde.

YOUTH IS MADE TO BE COCKY AND SHOW OFF

«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

«While working on the project Feldman recalls that he and Warhol never discussed religion or being jewish»

-Richard Meyer
 Warhol's Jews Ten portraits reconsidered

«POP ART IS FOR EVERYONE»

"I went to art school, I studied pop culture, I know everything about music and iconography, pop, cultural and religious," she says. "I'm self-manufactured. . .. (I look) at it not as poison or lowbrow, but looking at it in a very highbrow way, and self-making myself to be a powerful visionary and say something that will genuinely speak to people."

-Lady GaGa

THE WARHOL ATTITUDE: SO BAD IT'S GOOD

«OHH, ART IS TOO HARD»

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

-Joan Miro

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE JEAN PAUL GAULTIER WILL DESIGN A COLLECTION INSPIRED BY THE SWISS GUARDS OF VATICAN CITY

«YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: FEMMES

Seules les femmes très belles aiment se faire dire qu'elles sont intelligentes. Les autres
s'imaginent que vous voulez toujours dire autre chose....

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.»

-Oscar Wilde

«I NEVER READ I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»

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

Madonna new single almost finished.

-Next!

«OHHH, ART IS TOO HARD»

La prochaine qu'on vous parle d'une nouvelle exposition d'art contemporain visant à questionner le spectateur, demandez -vous combien de juifs hassidique, de religieuses catholiques, de femmes portant le hijab ou d'Indiens portant le turban auront questionné leurs convictions après cette même exposition. Si la réponse est aucun, alors vous ne manquez absolument rien.

«I THINK FLIRTING IS THE MOST EXCITING THING»

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Fashion fades, style is eternal»

-Coco Chanel

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE EXCLUSIVE BARS WILL ADD »GENITAL SHAPE CONTROL» TO THEIR «FACE CONTROL» POLICY

«IN THE FUTURE EVERYONE WILL BE FAMOUS FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES»

«I 'M A GOOD CATHOLIC»

«Andy went to church every Sunday. A lot of his friends were Catholic. He may have related better to us Catholics becase we all have the same background: mass, priests, nuns, Catholic school, a sense of guilt. His religion was a very private part of his life».

Warhol by Makos

LOOKING BOURGEOIS

At first, Andy Warhol, for exemple would go out to dinner and wouldn't know one end of that long
lineup of silverware on the table from the other, and so he would sit there at some five or six-course
dinner at the Burden's or wherever without touching a morsel, not the crème sénégalaise, nor the lobster
cardinal, nor the veal Valdostana, nor the salad Grant Street nor the fresh pear halves Harry & David-
until finally the lady seated to his left would say «But, Mr Warhol you haven't touch a thing!» Whereupon
Andy would say «Oh, I only eat candy». Warhol learned fast, howver, and he soon knew how to take 
whatever he wanted. The bohemian, by definition was one who did things the bourgeois didn't dare do.
True enough, said Warhol, and he added an inspired refinement: nothing is more bourgeois than to be
afraid to look bourgeois»

-Tom Wolfe
The painted word
p.85

«CHURCH IS A FUN PLACE TO GO»

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.»

-Jean Cocteau

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

Beyonce is pregnant.

-Next!

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: CAREER

You don't start by knowing what you want. You always start by knowing what you don't want anymore.

JEAN BAUDRILLARD SUR ANDY WARHOL

«Il affirmait le monde dans sa totale évidence. Le monde tel qu'il est désormais n'est ni figuratif,
ni non figuratif: Il est radicalement superficiel. Rien n'est original, mais pour cette raison précise, tout est génial».

Jean Baudrillard
Andy Warhol
Life Death & Beauty
Editions SKIRA 2014 p.30

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

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time. »

-Malcom Forbes

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: RECTITUDE POLITIQUE JUSQU'À L'ABSURDE

Les attentats terroristes commis au nom de l'Islam «n'ont rien à voir avec la religion» disent maintenant les leaders Occidentaux dans un délire de rectitude politique absurde. Or, ils affirment ensuite qu'ils faut
combattre «Les djihadistes» . Comme si ce mot ne venait pas de Jihad et d'une connotation religieuse, aussi mal interprétée puisse-t-elle être.

“I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD BE BUGGED ALL THE TIME...BUGGED AND PHOTOGRAPHED”

WOMEN

«Every great male artist has a conflictual relationship with women»

-Camille Paglia

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: SEX

After 40,  money is better than sex.

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

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

Madonna confirms Alicia Keys duet on her new album.

-Next!

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

OBSESSED WITH THE NOW....

“Just look at all the big american magazines , where the exciting things are only the newest things: the book that was just published, the movies that just opened, the latest records. It gets to the point where we can barely remember what came out before we're rushed on to the next, newer sensation".

-Andy Warhol

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: ARE CHINESE BILLIONAIRES BUYING MONET, RENOIR AND PICASSO GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

«I THINK MAKING PEOPLE LAUGH IS THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD»

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

Damien Hirst’s love affair with pills of all shapes and colours and his admiration of pharmaceutical industrial design has inspired new sculptures and prints, which are due to go on show in an exhibition at Paul Stolper Gallery in London. The show “Schizophrenogenesis” (9 October-15 November) sounds like “Alice in Wonderland” meets “Valley of the Dolls" as Hirst has super sized many of the pick-me-ups, ditto the packaging.

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

«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

«EVERYONE MUST HAVE A FANTASY»

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE HOLLYWOOD STARS WILL MAKE MONEY BY SELLING THEIR CLONED BODYPARTS ONLINE

DEBBIE HARRY ON SEX

«I wish everyone just took it for granted about sex. It should be more public. If there were two bears fucking and another bear came along, the only reason the third bear might get in the way would be if it was horny, and if it wanted to fuck too. But he would probably just look and think: «There's two bears fucking» and just keep on walking».

-Debbie Harry 
Interview magazine
Jan 1979 p.31

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

From a geographical point of view, the most interesting and densest zone for the under $5,000 budget is in fact Europe. Small treasures are regularly turning up at regional auction sales or at Druout in Paris which hosts no less than 74 auction companies and offers some 500,000 objects and artworks every year. Apart from the historical works, for which France remains the world’s primary attic (Alibaba’s cave might be a more accurate description…), whole segments of 19th century art remain seriously under-valued. In effect, the majority of European artists (except for one or two German and English masters), and particularly French artists, are untainted by speculation. They therefore represent a dynamic and affordable source for art lovers who wish to acquire works by already recognized signatures and works that are in tune with their epoch. Take for exampleGérard GAROUSTE, whose most recently auctioned major oil painting fetched $16,000 (Untitled, 1974, Artcurial Paris, May 5, 2014) whereas his most recently sold ink drawing fetched just $700 (Personnages, 1987, Beaussant-Lefevre SARL, Paris, December 18, 2013). Then there is Jean-Michel ALBEROLA who was associated with the Free Figuration movement. In April of this year, a gouache measuring over a meter (La Main qui tient, 1998, 112 cm x 91.5 cm, Tajan Paris, April 29 2014) sold for the equivalent of $5,300. In the same month, an acrylic on paper by Ivan MESSAC, the youngest of the Narrative Figuration artists, sold for just $2,200 in Versailles (American Indian Movement, 44 cm x 43.5 cm, Versailles Enchères, April 27, 2014)... These are all artists who have works in major national museums and are part of 20th century art history.

-Artprice.

»CHURCH IS A FUN PLACE TO GO»

THE END RESULT OF 100 YEARS OF AVANT-GARDE IN ARTS WITHOUT EVER LOOKING BACK TO SEE IF THE GENERAL PUBLIC WAS STILL THERE...

Impressionnisme, dadaïsme, surrealisme, expressionisme abstrait, conceptualisme, minimalisme,
néo-expressionisme......islamisme!

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE WOMYN STUDIES CLASSES WILL ENCOURAGE THEIR STUDENTS TO WEAR THE BURQA TO PROTECT THEM FROM THE «MALE GAZE»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: READING

If you're straight you can afford not to read until you're fifty. If you're gay, until 23 maximum...

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

THE SEX QUESTION

«Well, I think only kids who are very young should have sex, and people who are not young should never get excited. After twenty five, you should look but never touch».

-Andy Warhol
 Forum magazine
 Jan 1981 p.20

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

«Un  régime fasciste est en général contre les homosexuels. Seulement, n'oubliez pas que dans le régime hitlérien, il y avait aussi l'inverse. Les Hitler Jugend étaient très souvent homosexuels, ou en tout cas, s'orientaient vers l'homosexualité. Il y avait ces deux aspects. Cette ambiguïté existe dans tous les exemples de fascisme, chaque fois qu'il y a des masses retenues, unifiées, ou en exercice militaire. Dans tous les cas il y a une tendance à l'homosexualité parce que les hommes sont toujours ensemble, dorment ensemble, vivent ensemble, ont des rapports plus ou moins intimes. Il y a donc une menace d'homosexualité. Je dis menace parce que les chefs fascistes savent à la fois qu'il y a de l'homosexualité
qui naît avec le fascisme, et voulant en même temps machistes, ils sont contre cette homosexualité. C'est la preuve qu'il y a les deux et cela fait la contradiction profonde d'un régime fasciste, disons dictatorial».

-Jean Paul Sartre
 Le Gai Pied
 Avril 1980 p.13

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

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: WOMEN MAG: HOW TO MAKE SURE YOUR BEST FEMALE FRIENDS STAY FATTER THAN YOU!

CAMILLE PAGLA ON JOAN RIVERS

«When I arrived on the public scene after the release of my first book in 1990, I was called "the academic Joan Rivers" -- a title I loved. Yes, Joan influenced me profoundly. Watching her on TV, I learned so much about how to work a crowd or wake up groggy students in my morning classes. With her combative, rapid-fire style, Joan has shown generations of women how to command a stage and make it your own.»

«I NEVER READ I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world-and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame».

-Diana Vreeland.

«I LIKE TO WORK WHEN I'M NOT WORKING».

I think what is called imagination, it comes really from regular work».

-Francis Bacon.

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

«I LIKE MONEY ON THE WALL»

«I like money on the wall. Say you were going to buy a $200,000 painting. I think you should take that money, tie it up, and hang it on the wall. Then when someone visited you, the first thing they would see is the money on the wall.''

-The Philosophy of Andy Warhol.

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: RELIGION

You don't fight the roots of religious fanaticism by teaching atheism. You fight religious fanaticism

by teaching about long gone past religions. 

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

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?»

-George Carlin

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

DAVID CRONENBERG ON ANDY WARHOL

«By taking photos from Life magazine and newspapers, he was democratising art. He saw everything as having artistic potential. When he picked up a camera, he just shot what was there in front of him: the people he knew, the people who stumbled into his studio. So there was that link between his art and his film-making.»

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

«ANDY THOUGHT A LOT ABOUT JEWS»- BOB COLACELLO

Fascinating how nobody seems no longer able to see the long term plan of what is happening in Israel.
Way after an eventual peace with the Palestinians, way after the eventual creation of a Palestinian State, way after the push to have Israel recognized as a «Jewish State»: the plan to make sure that Jerusalem will be the «undivided  eternal capital of the jewish people.»