"Warhol is the pre-Helnwein."

-- Gottfried Helnwein

“No days such honored days as these! While yet Fair Aphrodite reigned, men seeking wide For some fair thing which should forever bide On earth, her beauteous memory to set In fitting frame that no age could forget, Her name in lovely April's name did hide, And leave it there, eternally allied To all the fairest flowers Spring did beget.”
“I have no complaints, except for the world.”

Source : Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute, February 1, 2005.
“Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says â€˜Oh dear, things canâ€™t possibly get any worse.â€™ And an optimist says, â€˜Donâ€™t be so sad. Things can always get worse.”
“Commercial jobs are pretty easily adjustable because they only take a few hours to complete, which is one of the reasons they are a Godsend to the actor.”
“The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.”

Source : "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger. Chapter: "The Spirit of the Age", p. 18, 1954.
“I had hurt her feelings, I found out later; I didnâ€™t know I had that power.”
“1/r^2 has a nasty singularity at r=0, but it did not bother Newton-the Moon is far enough.”
“I'm very happy with my body.”

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