Andy Warhol: "Either once only, or every day."
Interesting Andy Warhol quote, found on The Happiness Project:
"Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it’s not good any more.”Link
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Makes absolutely no sense. Which sounds just about right for Warhol.
Makes sense to me! I concur, Mister Warhol.
this is soooo true.
http://catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zero-One-Infinity-Rule.html
I jade very quickly when it comes to Warhol. Proving that even genius can be boring.
Is it just me, or does it sound like he's talking about wanking?
That, or drugs.
reminds me of this quote, i can't remember where i heard it, i think it was in some physics context, but...
"if you observe something once in the universe, it is unique, if you observe something twice it is infinitely duplicated elsewhere"...
@#6 buddy66
i used to hate warhol... but i live in pittsburgh (which andy hated) where the warhol museum is (he would have hated THAT) and i've actually come to appreciate his work. also reading please kill me helped to appreciate him at least a bit. i love his piss paintings, his prints about violence and the jesus-printed punching bags he did with basquiat... not to mention he was a shoe designer...
Wanking? Every day seems like a low frequency?
what about ham?
Andy smoked pot even when he didn't.
He talked like that for effect I knew
him well in NYC in 1965 what interests
me is how his quotes remain relevant by
some, who remembered all this stuff?
The fame for everyone for 15 minutes quote
will live on for centuries.
Ditto his comment on plastics replacing
real things too. I think as everything
including body parts will be "plastic" that
statement will not have the impact of it
being said some 40 years or more ago.
#8, I don,t think he designed shoes, did he? I know he illustrated them for newspaper ads, and very cleverly; he got his mother to do the lettering, which was also very clever because it had the right contrasting effect—high style+naive script. Like many of the Pop artists he worked in window display and advertising.
I'd like to see the Museum. I'm not denying that he was a sort of genius (savant), and that he was, for better or worse, the spirit of Pop Art. He really took chances, a very ballsy guy. But I just don't find the work as interesting as the idea of it. As someone once said about one of his projects, "It's not the sort of thing you have to see; it's the sort of thing you hear about and go 'Wow'!"
Wanking, drugs or church. Warhol was a daily communicant at St. Vincent Ferrer's.
I agree, the best things in life i want to do every day.
I enjoy a cheeseburger every now and then. I like to watch my favorite movie occasionally. I'm also fond of celebrating holidays.
If I watched my favorite movie only once, I wouldn't get to enjoy my favorite scenes or discover new things I'd previously overlooked. If I celebrated Halloween 365 days a year, it wouldn't be special any more. If I ate a cheeseburger every day... I'd probably be very unhealthy.
I suppose Andy Warhol's quote is supposed to be really profound or something, but it sounds like utter nonsense to me.
Sounds like an "Oblique Strategies" reject:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies
Sounds like a quote from John Cage's "Indeterminacy": In Zen they say:
If something is boring after two
minutes,
try it
for four.
If
still boring,
try
it for eight,
sixteen,
thirty-two,
and so on.
Eventually one discovers that it’s not
boring at all
but very interesting.
Well ahead of his time. Like all geniuses, we continue to unveil his insight.
One of my favorite books is The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: (From A to B and Back Again). I think he was a zen master, despite his snarky personae (all show, realy). Some of the best quotes are:
"The camera turns [people] on and off." (p. 80)
"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. People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television— you don’t feel anything." (p.91)
"At the end of my time, when I die, I don't want to leave any leftovers. And I don't want to be a leftover. I was watching TV this week and I saw a lady go into a ray machine and disappear. That was wonderful, because matter is energy and she just disappeared. That could be a really American invention, the best American Invention— to be able to disappear. I mean, that way they couldn't say you died, they couldn’t say you were murdered, they couldn’t say you committed suicide over somebody." (P.113)
"Space is all one space and thought is all one thought, but my mind divides its spaces into spaces into spaces and thought into thoughts. Like a large condominium. Occasionally I think of about one Space and the one Thought, but usually I don't. Usually I think about my condominium." (p.143)
"Before media there used to be a physical limit of how much space one person could take up by themselves. People, I think, are the only things that know how to take up more space than the space they're actually in, because with media you can sit back and still let yourself fill up space on records, in the movies, most exclusively on the telephone and the least exclusively on television." (p.146)
"You should have contact with your closest friends through the most intimate of and exclusive of all media— the telephone." (p.147)
"I always bring everything back to chemicals, because I really think everything starts and finishes with chemicals." (p.?)
Andy was speaking in generality here, about the whole of life. Not everything is relegated to a specific act! I think this directly relates to the emotional detachment we experience in regards to habits - once we do something a certain number of times, it becomes commonplace and shortly after that it becomes an unconscious decision. Just before habit, comes "jaded".
Wow! Why is wow so full of wow?.
Thanks poster Concord for showing us
the origin of Andy's thought from John
Cage.