«CHURCH IS A FUN PLACE TO GO»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: RELIGIONS

I never trust atheists or deeply religious people. But I always trust people with a deep awareness of all the past religions people no longer believe in. They always have the right attitude towards religions.

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE DAMIEN HIRST AND JEFF KOONS WILL BE ASKED TO DO UPCOMING PLAYBOY MAGAZINE COVERS

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

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

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.»

-Ernest Hemingway

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

NANCY REAGAN AND THE WHITE HOUSE

Andy Warhol: You know, I always thought they should have a lottery where they invite one family to dinner every night because it's so exciting to be here»

Nancy Reagan: There are tours of course, Andy.


Interview magazine
December 1981

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE MISS USA CONTESTANTS WILL DANCE ON PICKUP TRUCKS TO GAIN WORKING CLASS VOTERS FOR DONALD TRUMP

SEX WITHOUT STEREOTYPES IS NO FUN SEX AT ALL

«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»

Il ne peut y avoir de réflexion pertinente sur le sens de la vie sans une réflexion sur le temps qui passe...

«THE LESS SOMETHING HAS TO SAY THE MORE PREFECT IT IS»

"See I do smile... even laugh on occasion. Not too often though because it causes wrinkles,"

-Kim Kardashian

«I THINK THE YOUTH OF TODAY ARE TERRIFIC»

ART CRITIC 101

Keith Haring art was interesting in the 1980's. It's still interesting in 2015.
Francesco Clemente art was not interesting in the 1980's. It's still not interesting today....

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

«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».

-Edmund White

«I JUST THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS THE BEST MESSAGE»

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE A COURSE CALLED «SEX TAPE 101» WILL BE SYSTEMATICALLY INCLUDED IN COLLEGE FILM STUDIES

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.»

-Gustave Flaubert

«PEOPLE IN UNIFORM ALWAYS LOOK SO GREAT»

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

«It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

-André Gide

WOMAN IN REVOLT

«I JUST THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS THE BEST MESSAGE»

«I like to make people happy. That's what's great about show business. It's escapism. You pay your five bucks to get in and sit there and you're in another world. Forget about the problems of the world. It's wonderful. It's entertaining. It's magic»

-Michael Jackson
 Interview magazine
 October 1982 p.32

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS THE NEW BRICS DEVELOPMENT BANK GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

«POP ART IS FOR EVERYONE»

THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

«I think it's because there's no war that we see so many more beauties. There's a great american look now. Movies and soap operas are making everybody beautiful»

-Andy Warhol
 Interview magazine
 November 1982 p.33

«I NEVER READ I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»

ANDY WARHOL AND PLAYBOY MAGAZINE

«Actually, I want to make a movie now using straighter people than the unusual ones we've used» Warhol continues. «Next summer, we'll get five or six people living together for a couple of weeks out in the country, and just shoot everything that happens between them as they get complicated with one another». But he says he wants to shoot his orgy movie first.

-Playboy magazine
September 1969 p.278

POP CULTURE IN THE 21st CENTURY

From nom de plume to nom de porn...

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE A NEW RELIGION WILL PROMISE DIGITAL ETERNITY

FASHION 101

«les femmes les plus élégantes et charmantes sont rarement les plus riches».

Ines de la Fressange.

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

ANDY WARHOL ON THE WHITE HOUSE

«I went to the White House about six months ago and it was so exciting. I think they should invite every American. Every day they should  have dinners and just invite anybody. It would be so great».

-Andy Warhol
 Interview magazine
 April 1975 p.22

THE NEW BEST WAY TO AUTOMATICALLY RUIN A CAREER IN FASHION

Use a selfie stick....

«FOOTBALL GAMES ARE REALLY THE BEST PLACES TO MEET MACHO GUYS»

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

«Pour moi la jalousie c'est une des douleurs extraordinaires de l'amour. Le mot bonheur je ne l'aime pas, je n'aime pas le dire, je n'aime pas l'entendre...Nous savons tous que l'amour, la passion, est un état d'exaltation absolument extraordinaire et que ça amène avec soi de la joie et de la terreur, du plaisir et des douleurs. Et l'une des douleurs de l'amour c'est la jalousie»

-Jeanne Moreau.

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

TOO GAY!

«New Hope is 90 gay. We went to a place called Ramona's and a drag queen served us and people were drinking at 2 P.M. Gay old guys. It was too gay for me, it drove me crazy.

-The Andy Warhol Diaries
March 8 1986

«GEE, THAT'S GREAT»

The slogan of happy women magazine is really the best: we think, so you don't have to!

«I NEVER READ, I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»

SOIS BEAU ET TAIS TOI!

«When you just see somebody on the street, they can really have an aura. But then when they open their mouth, there goes the aura. "Aura" must be until you open your mouth.» 

-The philosophy of Andy Warhol 

WILL NEVER WORK....

Three things will never work. French people trying to do american show business, american intellectuals trying to be like french ones and Jeff Koons trying to sound interesting and having some kind of gay playfulness while talking about his work.

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

DATING TIP FOR THE 21st CENTURY

“ Let's say you decide you have an OK face, a great body , medium money and no power or prestige. That means you should go after other people who also have two mediums, a terrific and a nothing. It's not supposed to matter which categories the different things fall in as long as it's two mediums, one terrific one nothing»

-Andy Warhol
 America

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.»

-Boy George

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

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: FASHION MAG: HOW TO MINIMIZE YOUR EXPRESSION WRINKLES WHEN FALLING DOWN THE RUNWAY

«SHOPPING IS MORE AMERICAN THAN THINKING»

«At Herald Square people were pouring into Macy's from all over the world. At least they looked like they came from all over the world. But they were all americans and though they had lots of different color skins they all had buying in their blood and minds and eyes».


THe Philosophy of Andy Warhol.

«I LIKE MONEY ON THE WALL»

«ART IS WHAT YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH»

«Art is short for artist». 

-Andy Warhol. 

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: LOVE

 If you are not looking for love, in all its various forms all the time, you will never be a true artist....

«KIDS ARE THE ONES WHO FALL IN LOVE»

BEST SEX TIP EVER FOR WOMEN!

«I asked Anita how the really glamourous women went to bed with men, what did they do, and she said the only one she really knew about was somebody out in Hollywood who, when the moment would come, would kneel down on the floor and pray to God to forgive her and then he guys would get turn off and ashamed of themselves and they'd give her jewels.

The Andy Warhol Diaries
March 15 1977

«ART IS WHAT YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH»

«Toujours plus d'artistes, de moins en moins d'art».

-Alain Finkielkraut.

«SOMETIMES THE MEDIA MAKES CRIME GLAMOROUS»

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

At 640 Broadway in NoHo, rent-stabilized artists who pay $1,200 a month live beside market-rate tenants and they all get to use the new gym.

The landmarked building is still home to Maripol, the artist who helped discover Madonna — styling her, Grace Jones and Debbie Harry back in the day.

This is also where Maripol let pals like Keith Haring and Basquiat sleep on her couch.

Now, a two-bedroom, 1,650-square-foot apartment is on the market for $25,000 a month.

-New York Post. 

ANDY WARHOL ON RONALD REAGAN

I like Ford a lot. I am not sure I like Reagan. I don't know why. I liked him as a movie star».

-Andy Warhol
 Interview magazine
April 1975 p.22

LANDSCAPE

“I′m having boys come and model for the new paintings I′m doing. But I shouldn′t call them nude. It should be something more artistic. Like Lanscapes..Landscapes″.

-Andy Warhol

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache. »

-Mae West

«I NEVER READ, I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: SCHOOL

Why are male high school dropouts always so good looking?

IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST

July 7 2015

«Gee, I really love cosmetics stuff. How can we ever get enough of it? Went to the drugstore and there was this new skin care product for «all ages and all ethnic groups». So there was this old lady at the counter telling me this was the best product ever because it could be used by black, asian, white and latino women. But then some japanese artsy looking girl came and said asian was not an ethnic group but a racial one and asked if they were going to launch a new line for japanese skin, vietnamese skin, chinese skin, korean skin and so on. Then the old lady got mad and left..Oh, I don't understand it. Should I buy a face cream for «white american guy», «white american gay guy», or «white catholic guy»?

«ART IS WHAT YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH»

QUAND LA SYNTHÈSE DE L'ART ET LA CULTURE POPULAIRE ÉTAIT À SON SOMMET

Quel est l'équivalent aujourd'hui de ces superbes collaborations entre le magazine Vogue Paris et de grands artistes tels Giorgio de Chirico, Miro, Warhol, Dali ou Chagall?

LE NOUVEAU TRIANGLE

On dit souvent que les artistes américains ou canadiens sont davantage reconnus en Europe avant de l'être chez eux et vice-versa. Warhol et Haring furent deux bons exemples. Or maintenant que les riches collectionneurs chinois se mettent à acheter les trophée de l'art Occidental la donne sera t-elle appelée à changer quelque peu?

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

WARHOLIAN SIGHT OF THE DAY

Young homeless guy asking for money while holding up a cardboard sign saying: « too ugly for prostitution». I wonder if business is good...

«CHURCH IS A FUN PLACE TO GO»

WHY THE 99% WILL NEVER WIN AGAINST THE 1%...

«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

THE PLEASURE OF LEARNING THE GREATEST LESSON IN LIFE.

I like the idea that I can do this blog for the next thirty or forty years while being 100% sure that not a single person except my close friends will ever see anything interesting in it. That's great. Learning day after day the greatest lesson in life. Everything IS NOT possible.

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE CELL PHONES WILL ALLOW YOU TO SEND A VARIETY OF ODORS TO PEOPLE YOU LOVE OR HATE

LE SECRET WARHOL

Au fil des entrevues télé, passant constamment d'un air d'émerveillement enfantin naïf devant les choses à l'attitude distante savamment calculée.

WALKING THE PUG....

«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»

«Ce n'est pas tant l'oeuvre qui compte, mais la trajectoire de l'esprit au cours de la totalité de la vie. Non pas ce qu'il a fait au cours de celle-ci, mais ce que cela laisse entrevoir et permettra aux autres de faire à une date plus ou moins éloignée».

-Joan Miro.

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Politics is interesting if you are in politics, if not, forget about it».

-Karl Lagerfeld.