«A BOY IS BUTCH IF HE WEIGHS OVER 170 AND HE'S AN ALL AMERICAN FOOTBALL TYPE, A SPILLING-OUT MASCULINE MAN».

GEORGE PLIMPTON ON STUDIO 54

«Steve Rubell who co-owned Studio 54 , went down to the basement one dawn after he'd thought
everyone had left and found a Eurotrash princess handcuffed to an overhead pipe.  She had been taken down there by her own request,  handcuffed, fucked by one of the cocktail waiters-half naked, they ran around in what looked like diapers- who then thought My God I've got to go back to the bar! and forgot about the handcuffs. I can't be sure about the princess's reaction to her night, but a kind of laissez-faire attitude prevailed about Studio 54. As one of the regulars said: «We knew we were having the time of our lives; we were loving it. We knew it was an extraordinary time, and we knew it wouldn't last».

George Plimpton
The Advocate
July 21 1998 p.9

«MASS ART IS HIGH ART»

«Quand les films sont fait avec du coeur et du goût, tout le monde les aime, les cinéphiles comme les critiques et le public».

-Xavier Dolan.

«SHOPPING IS MORE AMERICAN THAN THINKING»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: GOOD EDUCATION

They always say young people should listen to old people. I never understood it. I mean young people are better -looking. Old people should listen to young people.

«ART IS A SPIRITUAL QUEST» -CAMILLE PAGLIA

«Le but c'est l'impossible. Il faut que ce but reste toujours dans l'esprit. Autrement on est fichu»

-Max Ernst.

YOUNG PEOPLE

«He got a lot from young people, and at work he surrounded himself with them. He didn't mind perfect strangers coming up to him in the street, because they gave him fresh energy and made him feel young».

Warhol by Makos

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

"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

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”

-Madonna

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

«Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.»


-Zsa Zsa Gabor. 

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

AMERICAN MOVIES

«I like American films best, I think they're so great, they're so clear, they're so true, their surfaces are great. I like what they have to say: they don't really have much to say, that's why they're so good. I feel the less something has to say the more perfect it is».

Andy Warhol
The East Village Other
November 1 1966.

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: PORNO GAY

Je n'ai jamais compris ceux qui sont capables de regarder des films porno gay. On ne regarde pas du porno gay. On vit les fantasmes de la porno gay quand on a un corps dans la vingtaine et la trentaine. Puis on passe à autre chose entre quarante et soixante dix ans en devenant collectionner d'art. Enfin après 70 ans, on se convertit au judaïsme et on redonne à la communauté....

«THAT'S WHY COMIC BOOK HEROS ARE GREAT. THEY DON'T HAVE TO GO TO THE BATHROOM»

DATING 101

«If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them».

-John Waters.

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

«You career will NEVER wake up and tell you it doesn't love you».

-Lady Gaga.

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

ART ENGAGÉ 101

Andy's most succesful show in 1977 was of his least obvious commercial series, the Hammer & Sickles, at the Daniel Templon Gallery in Paris. These were a tongue-in-cheek response to the marxist analysis of his work by Italian art critics. In Andy's hands, the tough symbols of Communism were turned into stunning still lifes, beautiful enough for capitalist titans like Gianni Agnelli to buy for their palatial walls.

Bob Colacello
Holy Terror
p.304

BETTER THAN THE ANDY WARHOL BRIDGE IN PITTSBURGH

«The people who have the best fame are those who have their names on stores. The people with very big stores named after them are the ones I'm really jealous of. Like Marshall Fields.»

-Andy Warhol

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

«ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS»

«Par la médiation de l'évènement sportif, le fait de l'existence collective ordinairement invisible,
devient tout à coup palpable. C'est ainsi que, dans nos sociétés sécularisés, le sport est l'instance de production du sacré».

-Paul Yonnet
 Le Nouvel Observateur
Octobre/Novembre 2005 p.38

«I'M A DEEPLY SUPERFICIAL PERSON»

«My only ambition in life....is to wear size 28 jeans»

-Karl Lagerfeld.

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

«I JUST THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS THE BEST MESSAGE»

«First and foremost, I am an entertainer. I am not the New York Times. I am Perez Hilton. It has my name on the top of the website and so people are going to read my opinions and my filter on the world of celebrities.»

-Perez Hilton
 

ANDY WARHOL POLITICAL STANCE

«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

YOUTH IS MADE TO BE COCKY AND SHOW OFF

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE THE HOTTEST TV REALITY SHOW WILL BE CALLED HOLLYWOOD CASTING COUCH

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: ART

Le fait que tout soit désormais permis en art est ce qui contribue le plus à la difficulté croissante d'une oeuvre actuelle à s'inscrire dans l'histoire de l'art. Le droit à la différence est devenu le droit à l'indifférence.

«I THINK THE YOUTH OF TODAY ARE TERRIFIC»

«I'M A DEEPLY SUPERFICIAL PERSON»

NEW FEATURE IN A BIGGER AND BETTER INTERVIEW; small-talk, all the latest word of mouth, plus, Art, Music, Books, Theater and the star of the month.

-Interview

Andy Warhol's Film magazine 

number 19 p.2

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: BOREDOM

You like boredom? Just listen to some art advisor talking about Jeff Koons...

«CHURCH IS A FUN PLACE TO GO»

PHILOSOPHIE FOR THE 21st CENTURY: POÉSIE

Qui ne comprend pas l'expérience poétique inhérente à la lecture d'un très vieux magazine se prive d'un bien grand plaisir....

THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

«Picasso m'a enseigné à courir plus vite que la beauté».

-Jean Cocteau

YOUTH IS MADE TO BE COCKY AND SHOW OFF

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: GAY MEN

We now have a first generation of openly gay men reaching old age. Still with their Peter Pan complex. And it's not a nice picture...

KEITH HARING ON MADONNA

«I knew Madonna from before. We were in that scene in the lower East Village at the same time. She was just starting. She used to go out with Jellybean [Benitez, now a record producer], and I'd see her sing at the Fun House, where he was the OJ. Bur I met the others through Andy. He had a way of sort of making things happen around him. I don't go to those parties much anymore; I'm not leading the same glamorous life. I don't miss it a lot, but when it started happening, I was young and naive, and it was really exciting. It was like incredible to go, you know, to meet Michael Jackson backstage with Andy. When he brought me to Yoko' s apartment the first time, it was incredible. You can't believe that you're there. The ultimate one was a dinner at Yoko's. I brought Madonna and the artist Martin Burgoyne. Andy was already there. Bob Dylan was there. David Bowie was there. And Iggy Pop. Just sort of in the kitchen. At first you are more in awe of things like that, but you adapt really quickly.»

-Keith Haring

«IF EVERYBODY'S NOT A BEAUTY THEN NOBODY IS»

                                Louise Bourgeois 1982.

ART HISTORY 101 FOR THE 21st CENTURY

«Supporters of the arts who gleefully cheer when a religious symbol is maltreated act as if that response authenticates their avant-garde credentials. But here's the bad news: the avant-garde is dead. It was killed over forty years ago by Pop Art and by one of my heroes Andy Warhol a decadent catholic. The era of vigorous oppositional art inaugurated two hundreds years ago by Romanticism is long gone. The controversies over Andreas Serrano, Robert Mapplethorpe and Chris Ofili were just fading sparks of an old cause».

-Camille Paglia

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

«Concerning love, I find that women are professional and men are amateurs»

-Francois Truffault
 Interview magazine
 March 1976 p.8

IN THE FUTURE EVERYONE WILL BE NARCISSISTIC FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES

WHAT INTERVIEW MAGAZINE SHOULD DO NOW

Un numéro spécial Paris entièrement en français avec Jean Paul Gaultier comme éditeur...

L'AVENIR DE DAMIEN HIRST SUR LE MARCHÉ DE L'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.

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: AMERICAN POP CULTURE

The BEFORE and AFTER culture.

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

«Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people. The worst is ugly short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life – they are mean and they want to kill you.»

-Karl Lagerfeld

YOUTH IS MADE TO SHOW OFF

THE BEAUTY ADDICTION

«Beauty is the hardest drug of all»

-Bob Colacello
 Interview magazine
 July 1971 p.5

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: ISLAM & JEWS

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

«I JUST THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS THE BEST MESSAGE»

WOMAN IN REVOLT

«Conservative feminism is pro-woman but male-friendly. If boys are languishing academically, if blue-collar men lose most of the jobs in the recession, or if innocent young men are falsely accused of heinous crimes--as several members of the Duke University Lacrosse team were in 2006, with campus feminists at the head of the mob--conservative feminists will speak out on men's behalf. The feminists now in power in our universities and in Washington see the world differently--as a zero-sum struggle between men and women, in which their job is to fight for women. But that is not the attitude of most women, whether conservative or liberal in political outlook. Men are their fathers, brothers, husbands, and sons; when they are in trouble, so are the women who care about them and, in many cases, depend on them.»

-Christina Hoff Sommers

LE SEXE C'EST NUL

« Avec Truman (Capote) c'était dur de s'y mettre et de la mettre... La dernière fois qu'il a mis sa queue dans ma bouche, je suis resté de marbre. Le sexe c'est nul. Maintenant, nous baisons par téléphone, c'est mieux, j'aime pas qu'on me décoiffe. »

-Andy Warhol
Journal

«THEY LOOK TERRIFIC AND THEY KNOW IT, AND THEY KNOW THAT YOU KNOW IT»

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

«Andy Warhol claimed everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. Warhol was well aware of the media circus of the 1960's, but he may not have known that 40 years later, people would become famous for being a reality show villain, blogging about celebrities or stepping out of an SUV sans undergarments».

-Forbes magazine
29/10/2007

À LA VALÉRIE SOLANAS

Women's studies: How to seduce your lesbian P.E teacher at your next «womyn» conference»!

«LA BEAUTÉ EST UN SIGNE D'INTELLIGENCE»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: POLITICS

Every time the left forget about the importance of the expression «tough love», it goes into decline.

«PEOPLE IN UNIFORM ALWAYS LOOK SO GREAT»

ANDY WARHOL THE 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

«I LIKE MONEY ON THE WALL»

Deux portraits sérigraphiés d'Elvis Presley et de Marlon Brando signés par Andy Warhol au tout début de sa carrière se sont vendus mercredi pour plus de 150 millions de dollars au total à New York par Christie's.

Triple Elvis, sérigraphie réalisée en 1963 à partir d'une photographie d'Elvis Presley armé d'un pistolet et prenant la pose comme un cow-boy, en trois exemplaires superposés et décalés, s'est vendue à 81,925 millions de dollars, bien au-delà des 60 millions estimés, après seulement six minutes d'enchères.

Four Marlons, sérigraphie réalisée en 1966, où l'acteur Marlon Brando apparaît sur une moto, a été achetée pour 69,605 millions de dollars. La maison d'enchères l'avait estimée à un maximum de 60 millions de dollars.

Le record absolu dépensé pour une oeuvre de Warhol est toujours détenu par le monumental Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) qui avait été vendu pour 105,4 millions de dollars en novembre 2013 par Sotheby's.

«I THINK THE YOUTH OF TODAY ARE TERRIFIC»

IMAGINARY OF A POP ARTIST

November 11 2014

Gee, I don't understand. Everybody's talking about how Warren Buffet said trickle down economics doesn't work. It does work. I mean, If you have 1 billion you just buy some $50 millions abstract expressionism painting and it «trickle down» on the wall of your Park Avenue appartment.

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: ARTISTIC SENSIBILITY

An artist is someone who enjoy either very intellectual content or absolute TV trash, and nothing betwen the two...

«MASS ART IS HIGH ART»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: BOTOX

Men don't want 50 year old with Botox. They want 20 year old without.

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

Madonna's clothes sell for millions for a charity auction.

-Next!

«I HAVE A BUSINESS TO KEEP GOING. I MEAN THE PORNO PICTURES ARE FOR A SHOW. THEY'RE WORK».

HIS FAULT

«I blame everything on him. I would say this. If there is a Starbucks in Rome, that's its fault»

-Fran Lebowitz

TTHE DATING GAME

Men lie about their height, women about their age and both lie about their weight.

YOUTH IS MADE TO BE COCKY AND SHOW OFF

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: STEREOTYPES

I like the idea of people saying stereotypes are never true and then watching eight black guys running the 100 meters final at the Olympics, a gay young guy looking effeminate and crying for Britney on You Tube, some news about a jewish guy and a hedge fund on Wall Street, or a big fat girl with a buzz cut leading the womyn's center at her College. That's great.

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS SEXTING GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

LIFE 101 FOR THE YOUNG AND DUMB

“Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.

Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.” 


-Oscar Wile

«TOUT EST BEAU»

«J'ai fait de plus loin que moi un voyage abracadabrant
Il y a longtemps que je ne m'étais pas revu
me voici en moi comme un homme dans une maison
qui s'est faite en son absence
je te salue, silence
Je ne suis pas revenu pour revenir
Je suis arrivé à ce qui commence

-Gaston Miron

EVERY STEREOTYPE IS TRUE

GAY SEX

Every gay man wants to dominate or being dominated during sex. Egalitarian sex is boring sex.

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: BEAUTY

Male beauty peak at 27. Female beauty at 32.

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

«ART IS A SPIRITUAL QUEST» -CAMILLE PAGLIA

«This book is about the mysteries of love, life, death, and art
(not necesarely in that order)
It attempts to reveal certain truths.
However as I found in my own life
each revelation brings with it many more new questions.
After thirty years I am exactly at the same point where I started.

-Ketih Haring
Eight Ball
Kyoto Shoin editor, Japan
1989.

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

«L'amour d'une jeune fille est plus fort que toutes les réprobations sociales».

-Balzac.

«I JUST THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS THE BEST MESSAGE»

ART 101

«Supporters of the arts who gleefully cheer when a religious symbol is maltreated act as if that response authenticates their avant-garde credentials. But here's the bad news: the avant-garde is dead. It was killed over forty years ago by Pop Art and by one of my heroes Andy Warhol a decadent catholic. The era of vigorous oppositional art inaugurated two hundreds years ago by Romanticism is long gone. The controversies over Andreas Serrano, Robert Mapplethorpe and Chris Ofili were just fading sparks of an old cause».

-Camille Paglia

«I NEVER READ, I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE WOMEN WILL HAVE THEIR VAGINAL LIPS BOTOXED TO FOLLOW THE TREND OF THE MOMENT

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Vanity is the healthiest thing in life».

-Karl Lagerfeld.

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE THE US GOVERNMENT WILL BAIL OUT THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY PORN INDUSTRY

NEVER STUDYING ART AS ART 101

-Cavalier: Mr. Warhol did you ever study art?

-Warhol: No, I never did, but Ondine did in high school.

Cavalier magazine
Sept 1966 p.88

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

SO MANY PEOPLE

«So many people have such great bodies today that the sort of lumpy, sit-around -the house flab that used to be «normal» now looks really bad. 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»

-Andy Warhol

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH WRITER: IS THE WESTERN WORLD GROWING ETHNIC DIVERSITY STILL GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

«BEAUTY IS A SIGN OF INTELLIGENCE»

«I LIKE MONEY ON THE WALL»

November 11 — Sotheby’s — Contemporary Art

The star here is Jasper Johns’s reinterpretation of his famous Flag, replayed in a beautiful 1983 encaustic on silk on canvas measuring just 11 1/2 by 17 1/2 inches and estimated at 
$15 million to $20 million. The Johns has some Pop Art company, including Robert Rauschenberg’s early combine painting Bantam, 1955, tagged at $3 million to
$5 million, and Andy Warhol’s Little Electric Chair, 1964, in fluorescent orange paint and silkscreen ink on canvas, which carries an estimate of $7.5 million to $9.5 million.

-www.blouinartinfo.com

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

Seuls les pauvres divorcent pour une question d'infidélité sexuelle...

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

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

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.

PLAYBOY: Give us an example.

PAGLIA: A woman I'm talking with at some event says, "Let's leave here and go to this bar," which is a lesbian bar. We go to the bar and we're talking and then she says, "Let's go have coffee," and we go to this coffee shop and end up, at three in the morning, half a block from her apartment. Finally, she says, "All right, well, goodnight." She's ready to go home alone and I look at her, like, "What do you mean? Aren't we going to go back to your apartment?" "No." "What?" And she says, "Do you think I was leading you on?" Un-fucking-believable. I can't tell you the rage. I am, at that point, looking at her and.... All I can say is, if I had been an 18-year-old street kid instead of a 45-year-old woman, I would have stabbed her. I was completely humiliated and furious. If I had been a guy with a hard-on, I would have hit her.

Camille Paglia
Playboy magazine
May 1995

«YOU HAVE TO DO STUFF THAT AVERAGE PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND BECAUSE THOSE ARE THE ONLY GOOD THINGS»

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

«Don't dress to kill, dress to survive».

-Karl Lagerfeld.

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE THE RICH-POOR DIVIDE WILL BE ABOUT LIVING FOREVER OR STILL DYING

Copyright  by IVAN

«I'M A GOOD CATHOLIC»

ANDY WARHOL ET HELEN GURLEY BROWN

Parfois les plus importantes réflexions philosophiques se trouvent là ou on les attend le moins. Ainsi ai-je toujours pensé que les plus pertinentes version pop, se trouvaient du côté de Warhol de un, et du côté de l'ex légendaire éditrice de...Cosmopolitan magazine de l'autre!. Helen Gurley Brown disait que dans la vie on a besoin de quatre choses: «d'amour,  de travail, de quelque chose à espérer et de contraste.» . Quant à Warhol il disait qu'être heureux c'était ne pas avoir de problèmes...que l'argent ne pouvait pas régler. Rien de plus vrai. Mais surtout très pertinente manière de donner à ce même argent l'importance qu'il a, tout en ne lui accordant pas celle qu'il n'a pas.

HOLLYWOOD!

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: MOMENT PRÉSENT

Ce qu'on appele «vivre l'instant présent», c'est tout simplement par moments, une conscience
aïgue de la fragilité de la vie et de son caractère éphémère...

«I JUST THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS THE BEST MESSAGE»

«OHH, ART IS TOO HARD»

«Écrire c'est peindre des mots».

-Ben

«SEX IS THE BIGGEST NOTHING OF ALL TIME»

Gay porn, cock, ass. How can someone be turned on by this? Impossible for me to understand.