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

«I LIKE BORING THINGS»

«In his catalogue introduction to the first Andy Warhol retrospective, held in Philadelphia in 1965, Samuel Adam Green remarked: Warhol's pictorial language consists of stereotypes. Not only our time has a culture known so many commodities which are absolutely impersonal, machine-made and untouched by human hands...Warhol accepts rather than questions our popular habits and heroes.  By accepting their inevitability, they are easier to deal with than if they are opposed...We accept the glorified legend in preference to the actuality of our immediate experiences, so much so that the legend becomes commonplace and, finally, devoid of the very qualities which first interested us».

Edward Lucie-Smith
Visual Arts in the 20th century
Prentice Hall Inc 1996
p 262.

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

«Notre boulot c'est d'être marchand de bonheur».

Guy Laliberté
Fondateur du Cirque du Soleil.

«ART IS WHAT YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH»

«L'art abstrait est le fruit sec d'un raisonnement juste».

-Max Ernst.

YOUTH IS MADE TO BE COCKY AND SHOW OFF

FRAN LEBOWITZ ON NEW YORK IN THE 21 ST CENTURY

«You can't hear anything because money is making so much noise now».

-Fran Lebowitz

«I LIKE MONEY ON THE WALL»

«No doubt it has contributed importantly to my day to day enjoyment. I do look at them, I'm very aware of them, and I love them».

David Rockefeller about his art collection
2009 Interview.

«BEAUTY IS A SIGN OF INTELLIGENCE»

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Ils ne savaient pas que c'était impossible. Alors ils l'ont fait».

-Mark Twain.

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE EVERYONE WILL BE RELIGIOUS FOR 15 MINUTES

«CHURCH IS A FUN PLACE TO GO»

NO GREAT ART WITHOUT THE RELIGIOUS QUESTION

«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

DAMIEN HIRST

«After getting out of school, Damien hung around for a year or so, not knowing what to do with himself, until it occurred to him, to go to art school. He had always liked to draw. He took the foundation course at Jacob Kramer College, an art school in Leeds. After that he applied to two professional art schools, St Martin's in London, and Cardiff College in Wales-and was turned down by both of them. At loose ends again, he got a doctor friend to let to let him sit in on his anatomy course
at the morgue. Damien did life drawings of the corpses. «That's when I got interested in things being more real» he said.

Calvin Tomkins
Lives of the Artists p.7

«I THINK THE YOUTH OF TODAY ARE TERRIFIC»

FRAN LEIBOWITZ

«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

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

«ART IS A SPIRITUAL QUEST» -CAMILLE PAGLIA

«God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.»

-Pablo Picasso

KEITH HARING ON THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

«It never ceases to amaze me: the hypocrisy of the church, especially the Catholic Church. 
Most of this wealth was stolen in the name of God. The art is totally homoerotic. 
The whole church seems to be controlled by a very ancient and very omnipresent gay hierarchy.
The choir in the Sistine Chapel used to consist of castrated 16 and 17 year old boys who probably had many talents other than singing. All the sculptures are about sexual beauty (asses , hands, feet, cocks) in a very male way. Everyone knows, but everyone pretends not to see. Italians are obsessed with cazzos. There are dicks drawn everywhere as graffiti.

Keith Haring
Journals p.266

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

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

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: AMERICA

A black football quarterback is like a white 100 meters sprinter. Boring and not the real America.

«I'M NOT MORE INTELLIGENT THAN I APPEAR.»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: DIVERSITY

The best way to find out if someone is intellectually interesting is to look at his or her group of friends. The more physically diverse the friends are in term of look and age the more interesting the person is.

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART» ( ARTWORK BY TRACY EMIN)

EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL

«Je crois qu'il y a un sentiment familier de la poésie. Le familier peut être l'occasion de découvrir
la poésie qui n'est pas familière.»

-René Magritte.

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

-«One of the questions that I remember the answer to was : «What is your greatest fear?» And I said :«That I might run out of world.»

-Robert Rauschenberg


Rauschenberg Retrospective
Guggenheim Museum catalogue
1997
p.31

YOUTH IS MADE TO BE COCKY AND SHOW OFF

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

« In general, I feel that people like me. Or maybe sometimes it could be a mistake, but I don’t feel it, so it doesn’t matter! I am very lucky because I am doing the work that I dreamed of doing as a child.»

-Jean Paul Gaultier

VISITING CALVIN KLEIN

“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 8,000 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

«BEAUTY IS A SIGN OF INTELLIGENCE»

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

«The best point of entry into the very special world inhabited by today's students is the astonishing fact that they usually do not, in what were once called love affairs say «I love you» and never «I'll always love you». One student told me that of course he says «I love you» to girlfriends when we are breaking up.» It is the clean and easy break-no damage, no fault- at which they are adept. This is understood to be morality, respect for other person's freedom».

Alan Bloom
Closing of the american mind
p.122
Simon & Schuster
New York
1987

«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

«By 1959 Warhol had become very successful in the field of advertising design, earning an average
annual sum of $65 000 and numerous Arts Directors Club medals and other token of professional recognition».

Andy Warhol retrospective
Museum of Modern Art catalogue 1989
p.39

«CHURCH IS A FUN PLACE TO GO»

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

«À 95 ans, malgré les guerres et les atrocités que j’ai vues, j’aime la vie plus que jamais. Chaque jour, je m’émerveille d’un rien, en regardant les feuilles des arbres, un papillon qui se pose sur ma fenêtre, en écoutant les symphonies de Beethoven… La nature, l’amour, l'art tout m’emplit de joie». 

-Edgar Morin. 

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