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

WHORE!

-Andy loved it when Victor showed up at 54 in a jockstrap or at a Halston party in a Halston dress, in both cases much to Halston's embarrassment. Victor later told me that Andy actually paid him to do these things. He said Andy would slip him some cash and tell him: »Okay, whore, go out there and do something».

-Bob Colacello
Holy Terror
p.376

YOUNG AND DUMB VERSUS YOUNG AND SMART

It's very easy to see if someone in his 20's is smart or dumb even before you talk to him. The smart ones are narcissistic in a playful and seductive way. The dumb ones are also narcissistic but in a completely self-centered sterile way.

YOUTH IS MADE TO BE COCKY AND SHOW OFF

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:CELEB MAG:FURIOUS ANGELINA THREATENS BRAD: GIVE ME BETTER SEX OR I'LL TURN INTO A RAGING BULL DYKE!

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

«I'm like the Magic Johnson of this Rap shit. I play all positions».

-Kayne West at 26 year old.

«EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL» ( MAX ERNST & DOROTHEA TANNING 1948)

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: LOVE & SEX

Love without sex is better than sex without stereotypes...

«OHH, ART IS TOO HARD»

«Quel rôle joue la sexualité dans ma vie?
 Dans mes jours et mes nuits?
Dans mes joies et mes peines?
Dans mon travail?
Dans mes relations aux autres?
Dans mes lectures?
Dans le métro?
Dans mes fringues?
Si je le savais j'aurais le sourire de la Joconde
et je perdrais mon âme»


-Annette Messager.

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

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

Great artists always know how to love. But they almost never know how to be loved.

LIFE 101 FOR THE OLD AND SAGGING

«I never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably
because they have forgotten their own»

-Margaret Atwood.

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: CHIC

Le vrai chic ce n'est pas une marque de vêtement, c'est savoir poser ses mains et ses doigts comme Lee Radziwill...

YOUTH IS MADE TO BE COCKY AND SHOW OFF

«PEOPLE NEED TO BE MADE MORE AWARE OF THE NEED TO WORK AT LEANING HOW TO LIVE BECAUSE LIFE IS SO QUICK AND SOMETIMES IT GOES AWAY TOO QUICKLY»

"I enjoy Life when Things are HAPPENING. 
I don't care if it's Good Things or Bad Things.
That means you're ALIVE."

-Joan Rivers

«ART IS WHAT YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH»

«This is not art because I say so».

-Ben

«ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: ISLAM VS ISLAMISME: LE FAUX DÉBAT

Enfin! Voilà qu'Alain Finkielkraut résume parfaitement une chose en une phrase simple qu'on ne devrait jamais oublier en toute circonstance. Ce qu'on appelle «l'islam radical n'est pas seulement l'islam radical, c'est l'Islam LITTÉRAL.» Comment peut-on encore ne pas comprendre cela?
Une chose propre à TOUTES les religions d'ailleurs. Le fondamentalisme chrétien, c'est une lecture littérale de la Bible. Idem pour le fondamentalisme juif. Si aujourd'hui en Occident les gays peuvent vivre et s'épanouir ouvertement c'est parce que pratiquement plus personne ne fait une lecture littérale du passage de Sodome et Ghomorre et de la statue de sel dans l'ancien Testament. Plus personne ne lit littéralement le passage que la femme doit être soumise à son mari dans la Bible chrétienne. Trajectoire identique pour les juifs avec toutes les variantes possibles.  Oui, les juifs hassiques font une interprétation des textes religieux plus littérale que ne le font les juifs réformistes par exemple. Avec pour résultat que ce sont des juifs hassidiques qui disent que les femmes ne doivent pas s'asseoir dans le bus avec les hommes en Israel. Pas les juifs réformistes. Partout dans le monde les pays qui attirent les immigrants sont sans exceptions des pays de tradition chrétienne ayant pris leur distance de l'interprétation littérale des textes religieux. C'est là un héritage majeur de ces pays ayant mené à leur qualité de vie actuelle. En disant à chaque fois qu'un attentat terroriste islamique n'a rien à voir avec l'islam on affirme implicitement que la lecture littérale des textes du Coran n'est pas un problème. Non seulement c'est faux mais de plus ce n'est pas rendre service à l'immense majorité des musulmans qui eux ne font pas de lecture littérale des textes religieux. Et qui par conséquent sont le modèle à suivre pour que l'immigration des musulmans en Occident soit un succès. Un musulman , un chrétien ou un juif «modéré» c'est avant tout, un musulman, un chrétien ou un juif refusant la lecture littérale des textes religieux comme seule solution à tous les problèmes.

IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST

Oct 26 2014

Went to the office. Worked on my Xavier Dolan portrait. He's this new kid doing
all those films about women. I guess it's like Women in Revolt but for the new generation. He's got a great Keith Haring tattoo on his arm. He should do a film about him. I wanted him to pose like a vintage James Dean but he said he wanted to look like a young Gerard Malenga. And oh, what is ISIS?
Should I collect it?

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: LA NOUVELLE VULGARITÉ

Fascinant que cette nouvelle vulgarité du marché de l'art se limitant à quatre ou cinq grands noms au sommet. Ça sent la bulle....

«ART IS WHAT YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH»

Just read something about Ron Rerelman. They called him a «leveraged buyout artist»....

«PERSONALLY I LOVED PORNO AND I USED TO BUY LOTS OF IT ALL THE TIME»

WARHOL INC

So I was shot at my place of business: Andy Warhol Enterprises. At that point, in 1968, Andy Warhol Enterprises consisted of a few people who worked for me on a fairly regular basis, a lot of what you might call free-lancers who worked on specific projects, and a lot of "superstars" or "hyperstars" or whatever you can call all the people who are very talented, but whose talents are hard to define and almost impossible to market. That was the "staff" of Andy Warhol Enterprises in those days. An interviewer asked me a lot of questions about how I ran my office and I tried to explain to him that I don't really run it, it runs me. I used a lot of phrases like "bring home the bacon" so he didn't really understand what I was talking about.

-The philosophy of Andy Warhol

«I LIKE TO WORK WHEN I'M NOT WORKING»

«Inspiration comes from working»

-Karl Lagerfeld

«I THINK THE YOUTH OF TODAY ARE TERRIFIC»

CE QU'EST DEVENU LE MARCHÉ DE L'ART

IL n'y a plus de marché intermédiaire pour l'art contemporain. Ne reste que l'art trophée comme nouvel investissement anti-récession pour le 0.00000001% des plus riches. Une compréhension tacite de confrérie. «Je t'achète ton Rothko pour $40 millions cette année si tu m'achète mon Pollock à 60 millions dans 2 ans».

«CHURCH IS A FUN PLACE TO GO»

OLDER WOMEN AND THEIR BOY TOY

John's got an older girlfriend now. So does Robyn Geddes. Forty year-olds who boss them around.

The Andy Warhol Diaries
July 31 1979

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«I'm very much down to earth-not just this earth».

-Karl Lagerfeld.

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

«POP ART IS FOR EVERYONE»

«J'ai conduit les intellectuels au Forum et amené les amateurs de hockey à s'intéresser à l'art».

-Serge Lemoyne.

«WHAT I REALLY LIKE ARE TALKERS»

TIME TO BUY A MAO PAINTING BY WARHOL

China's president say art must serve the people not the market.

«I'M NOT MORE INTELLIGENT THAN I APPEAR»

«More often than not, things and people are as they appear».

-Malcom Forbes.

YOUTH IS MADE TO BE COCKY AND SHOW OFF

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE CHANEL WILL LAUNCH AN EXCLUSIVE LINE OF SEX TOYS

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: LES FRANÇAIS

J'aime bien Xavier Dolan disant qu'en France certaines personnes intellectualisent trop ses films en  parlant par exemple d'une référence à Fassbinder, alors que Dolan lui-même avoue n'avoir vu aucun des films du réalisateur allemand.  Au moins le jeu verbal de Dolan en entrevue a le charme d'être axé entièrement sur la séduction. C'est ce qui explique que la France l'aime autant. Ça change du jeu verbal à vide et exaspérant d'un Jeff Koons.

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: FASHION & DESIGN

Art and literature has now been replaced by fashion and design as definition of «culture». Obviously with such emptiness the door is wide open for the growth of islam in the Western world.

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

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

Stardom: the only notion left of social mobility in the USA.

«ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS»

L'ART DE DURER

Si la popularité des oeuvres d'Andy Warhol sur le marché de l'art ne se dément pas il en va de même pour ce qui entoure sa vision des choses. La raison en est bien simple: toute sa vie il n'a jamais perdu de vue les grandes questions essentielles et les seules qui comptent vraiment: l'art, le temps qui passe, la célébrité, l'argent, le sexe, l'amour, la beauté, la mort. Ce sont là assurément les éléments les plus reconnaissables chez les artistes qui ont traversé avec succès l'épreuve du temps et pour Warhol la majorité d'entre eux furent pratiquement des obsessions.

WOMYN OF THE YEAR!

«And then we went off to another party for the Dyke Woman of the Year. You know the dykey types-what's it called? «Outstanding Women».

The Andy Warhol Diaries
Sept 24 1980

«THEY ALWAYS HAD GREAT GIRL MODELS BUT NOW THE BOY MODELS ARE JUST AS GOOD“

«ART IS WHAT YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH»

“I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it,’ Hirst said in 1990. “At the moment if I did certain things people would look at it, consider it and then say, F--- off. But after a while you can get away with things

-The Telegraph
 Oct 9 2014

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. »

-Charlie Chaplin

YOUTH IS MADE TO BE COCKY AND SHOW OFF

DAVID LACHAPELLE ON MICHAEL JACKSON

«Everyone had a judgment about Michael Jackson, but I think Michael was a messenger and he was here to teach us. He was a really good friend of mine. When he was charged with pedophilia, he still lived his life with such dignity. Even when he was under the most horrible of times, he never lost it, he never freaked out. He just lived it out with dignity, and kindness, and talent.»

GEE, THAT'S ME ALSO!

«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

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

WARHOLIAN PHILOSOPHY: INVERTED OPTIMISM

«I guess, it's kind of an inverted optimism. Because I am pessimistic, I always expect the worst. When it doesn't happen, I have a nice surprise»

Princess Grace
Playboy magazine
Jan 1966 p.74

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: COLLEGE HUMANITIES

In the last 30 years the college humanities departments went from publish or perish to...publish AND perish! Good job!

«EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL»

«ANDY THOUGHT A LOT ABOUT JEWS» -BOB COLACELLO

À La Lenny Bruce

Rob Ford: jewish
Doug Ford: goyim
Doug Ford saying his doctor is jewish: goyim
Doug Ford saying his wife is jewish: goyim
Doug Ford saying his wife has jewish ancestry: jewish
Doug Ford saying his maternal grandmother was jewish: jewish, jewish, jewish.
Rob Ford saying he didn't need a prostitute because he has «enough to eat at home»: goyim
Rob Ford porn movie parody: jewish.

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: THE FUTURE CLASH NOBODY WANTS TO SEE

Religious people always have more children than non religious people. And the more radical they are in their religious views, the more children they have. Get ready. The clash all over the Western World will be huge...

«I THINK THE YOUTH OF TODAY ARE TERRIFIC»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: AFFAIRES 101

Le fondement de la culture entrepreneuriale, c'est l'amour.

JOHN WATERS ON ANDY WARHOL

«Andy was one of the least overtly sexual people ever. His art was longing for fame, longing for sex,
longing for everything. He put longing on an altar».

John Waters & Bruce Hainley
Art-a sex book
Thames & Hudson 2003 p. 11

«EVERYONE MUST HAVE A FANTASY»

POP SHOP

«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»

-Keith Haring

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

«OHH, ART IS TOO HARD»

«Il y a beaucoup hasard dans l'histoire de l'art."

-Marcel Duchamp.

THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

«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. "

-Michelangelo

«I THINK THE YOUTH OF TODAY ARE TERRIFIC»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: WALL STREET CULTURE

Wall Street can't be reformed. A stock exchange trading floor is all about young males at their testosterone peak. Therefore at the peak of their risk taking behaviour while acting like peacocks flaunting money to attract high maintenance trophy wifes.

«OHH ART IS TOO ART»

Tous les artistes ne créent ne que pour une seule raison. L'espoir plus ou moins avoué de ne jamais être oublié.

«MASS ART IS HIGH ART»

BRIGID BERLIN

Works by an artist with a genuine Pop pedigree can be seen at John McWhinnie and Glenn Horowitz’s skylighted gallery-bookstore hybrid on 64th Street. The needlepoint copies of recent New York Post and Daily News front pages are by Brigid Berlin, the ’60s debutante turned Warhol superstar who continues to make Factoryesque art. Ms. Berlin’s early Polaroids and amphetamine-fueled “trip books” are also on display, as are rare books with a kitschy-sleazy, John Waters-Richard Prince aesthetic.

New York Times
Nov 13 2008

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

YVES SAINT-LAURENT

-Vous dites souvent qu’Yves Saint Laurent avait beaucoup de goût. Etait-il cultivé?

Je ne dirais pas ça. Pour être cultivé il faut avoir beaucoup lu, vu beaucoup de musées, avoir beaucoup voyagé. Or Yves était de nature enfermée, replié sur lui-même. C’était avant tout un homme de talent.

-Pierre Bergé

-Le matin

YOUTH IS MADE TO BE COCKY AND SHOW OFF

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: SENS DES MOTS

L'homosexualité est naturelle. Ce qui ne veux pas dire qu'elle soit normale.

«OHH, ART IS TOO HARD»

«L'émotion est toujours ce que je cherche en art».

Xavier Dolan.

UP THERE!

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.”


-Roland Barthes

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: SEXE

La seule femme qui affirme que les hommes ne disent jamais, mais alors là jamais, la vérité aux femmes sur leurs véritables fantasmes sexuels est Camille Paglia. Inutile de dire que c'est la seule femme qui a raison et qui voit juste.

«PERSONALLY I LOVED PORNO AND I USED TO BUY LOTS OF IT ALL THE TIME»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: AGE

Age is only a number. The year you were born is not....

«I JUST THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS THE BEST MESSAGE»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: CULTURE

High culture is about second name: Mozart, Picasso, Dali, Neruda. Pop culture is the opposite: Angelina, Brad, Jennifer, Britney...

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

«Le moteur de ma vie, c'est le désir».

Catherine Deneuve.

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

«POP ART IS FOR EVERYONE»

Hitchcock, Titanic, gorgeous art and photography books... How about an interview of Xavier Dolan by Camille Paglia?

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on».

-Joan Rivers

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

CALVIN KLEIN IN THE 1980's

Got to Fire Island and had lunch at an outdoor spot. We decided to call Calvin's and he said to come right over. And Calvin's house is right off Ocean Walk and there's 8000 boys around it, and a lot of girls too, and they 're all walking around wanting to be discovered for a jeans ad

-The Andy Warhol Diaries
July 18 1982

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE DECENCY LAWS REGARDING CLOTHING WILL BE BASED ON THE PERSON'S LOOK AND BODY SIZE ONLY.

«I'M A GOOD CATHOLIC»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: SEXE

La pire chose qui puisse arriver à quelqu'un c'est de ne pas avoir trouvé une chose plus intéressante que le sexe.

WOMAN IN REVOLT

The horrors and atrocities of history have been edited out of primary and secondary education except where they can be blamed on racism, sexism, and imperialism — toxins embedded in oppressive outside structures that must be smashed and remade. But the real problem resides in human nature, which religion as well as great art sees as eternally torn by a war between the forces of darkness and light.

-Camille Paglia

«ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS»