what to think about andy?

"I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom. "

Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick, the first "It girl".

"I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say "figment." "

The Factory was located at 19 E32 and 22 E33, between Park and Madison in Midtown, Manhattan, NYC.

"I never think that people die. They just go to department stores."

Some of my favorite framed art in my house is of Andy's shoe sketches.

In the early days in NYC he was able to figure out how much he would make in a week by how many shoes he had sketched.

Andy was in many ways a superficial personality and never afraid to admit that he was obsessed with fame and money.

"I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money. "

"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink.
As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks."

And yet, he decided to make his name creating "pop" art.

He was the first to mass produce art through silk screening.
"It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger."

"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. "

So, what to think about Andy Warhol? He threw away many people he used to get to the top.He created art for the masses and called it all stupid. He made us look at the advertising that bombards us in a whole new way. Was he a genus and a bit nuts? Or was he laughing at us all the way to the bank? Whatever the answer is, I love what he created and left behind.

"Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. "

"If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it. "