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Into ANDY WARHOL's mind

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Aisthesisouv online
April 23, 2024

“Into Warhol’s Mind” 2024, Kiravoyant

Andy Warhol , A painter and graphic artist, also produced a significant body of film work, including his famous Chelsea Girls. Equally well known in the late sixties and early seventies as resident host at his studio, the Factory, Warhol died in New York in 1987.

Andy Warhol, Self Portrait With Fright Wig, 1986, © 2020 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by DACS, London.

“The reason I’m painting this way is that I want to be a machine.”

David McCabe photographing Andy Warhol and his assistant Gerard Malanga working on a silkscreen printing at The Factory. Photo © David McCabe

“Your mind makes spaces into spaces. It’s a lot of hard work. A lot of hard spaces. As you get older you get more spaces, and more compartments. And more things to put in the compartments.”

Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait with Skull (1977), Polaroid, Polacolor, 4 1/4 × 3 1/2 in

“To be really rich, I believe, is to have one space. One big empty space.”

Skull ,1976, Andy Warhol

“Empty space is never-wasted space.”

“Wasted space is any space that has art in it.”

‘John Lennon’, 1986, Silkscreen

“Space is all one space and thought is all one thought, but my mind divides its spaces into spaces into spaces and thoughts into thoughts into thoughts.”

TURTLE FS II.360A, 1985

“I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk.”

All quotes from the book “THE PHILOSOPHY OF ANDY WARHOL”