THEWARHOLINFLUENCE.COM
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.
Sunday, February 26, 2017
THE BEST DRUG OF ALL
«Beauty is the hardest drug of all»
-Bob Colacello
Interview magazine
July 1971 p.5
«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»
«At the auction last night my Triple Elvis went for $135 000, so that's good. It was estimated at $70-$90 000. But Thomas Ammann bid $440 000 for one of David Whitney's Rauschenberg».
-Andy Warhol Diaries
Nov 8 1983
Sunday, February 19, 2017
FRAN LEBOWITZ
«In the deluge of comments that descended on Sotheby's disposition of Andy Warhol's earthly possessions, perhaps the only unarguable point was made by Fran Lebowitz, the humorist, who had written a column for the artist's Interview magazine. Asked how he might be feeling about the event, she said: Andy must be furious that he's dead»
Warhol
Victor Bockris
p 611
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
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
THE MONEY OBSESSION
«His private diary was in the first instance a way of keeping account of his expenditure. He had a complicated relationship with money. He would keep 100 dollar bill in his boots»
-Bob Colacello.
Wednesday, February 08, 2017
POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: ARE CHINESE BILLIONAIRES BUYING MONET, RENOIR AND PICASSO GOOD FOR THE JEWS?
HOLLYWOOD
«One fascinating thing about Hollywood is that it's filled with these petite, fragile beauties in their seventies and eighties that you see at all the premieres and things. You can tell they were once really beautiful because they still have that glamour aura around them, and they still hold themselves together really well. But you can't figure out who they are, or what roles they had or how they live today».
-Andy Warhol
America
-Andy Warhol
America