Andy Warhol Net Worth

Andy Warhol's Quotes

• I would rather watch somebody buy their underwear than read a book they wrote.
• In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.
• I am a deeply superficial person.
• Success is when the checks don't bounce.
• I'd prefer to remain a mystery. I never like to give my background and, anyway, I make it all up different every time I'm asked. It's not just that it's part of my image not to tell everything, it's just that I forget what I said the day before, and I have to make it all up over again.

Interesting Facts about Andy Warhol

1. 1984: He and Don Monroe directed music video "Hello Again" for The Cars. He also appeared in it, playing The Bartender.
2. Interred at St. John the Baptist Catholic Cemetery, Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
3. In 1990, Lou Reed and John Cale made a CD album called "Songs for Drella" as a tribute to Warhol with 15 songs about Warhol's life.
4. Pictured on a USA 37¢ commemorative postage stamp issued 9 August 2002.
5. Produced The Velvet Underground's first album. He essentially lent his name to their work and observed them in the recording studio, while Lou Reed and later Tom Wilson (who had worked earlier with Bob Dylan) mostly called the shots. The cover of the band's first album (with Nico) was Warhol's design: a banana with a peel that was actually a peelable sticker.
6. Is credited with coining the term "superstar."
7. When guesting on The Love Boat (1977), he was nervous about the experience and turned to his castmate (and muse for the particular episode) Marion Ross, who calmed him down and offered some advice on how to act.
8. Was a frequent guest at the infamous "Studio 54"
9. Avoided the subject of death, except in his paintings (the Disaster series). He did not attend the funerals of his superstars nor did he attend his mother's funeral when she died in November 1972. After she passed away he continued to give the impression that she was still alive to people who would ask about her. Warhol did not mention his mother's death to any of his close friends. As late as 1976, when friends asked about his mother, Andy said, 'Oh, she's great. But she doesn't get out of bed much."
10. His father, who traveled much on business trips, died when Warhol was 13.
11. Son of immigrants from the town Miková, located in today's northeastern Slovakia. His original name was "Warhola".
12. Warhol's "A: A Novel," published in 1968, is based on 24 hours of tape recordings (24 one-hour tapes) of Ondine speaking. His tape-recorded musings were transcribed and typed up and serve as the basis of the novel, which was disingenuously presented as one day in the life of Ondine. The book is one of the premier artifacts of the Pop art movement/Pop culture. Warhol followed Ondine around New York City with a tape recorder, recording their conversations. Ondine was addicted to amphetamines and was prone to wild verbal flights that covered many subjects. To type up the tapes, Warhol hired teenage girls, some of whom were barely literate and made many errors. Warhol "edited" the resulting manuscript during a series of concerts given by The Velvet Underground (Lou Reed is one of the "characters" in the novel), sitting in the rear of the theater in the dark, reading proof sheets with a flashlight. Like James Joyce when confronted with transcription errors made by the French printers/compositors of the first edition of "Ulysses" (1922), Warhol loved the mistakes and decided to keep them in. He thought the mistakes improved the book as it made it worse, more of a Pop manifesto, and insisted that all the errata be left in the final draft, which he fancied as a Pop "Finnegans Wake." In his later book/memoir "Popism," Warhol explained, "I wanted to do a 'bad book' just the way I'd done 'bad movies' and 'bad art,' because when you do something exactly wrong, you always turn up something." Warhol, the author, refused to filter out the "background noise" or "static," thus preventing the reader from following a coherent narrative thread. The book intentionally is boring, as are many of Warhol's films. Of his films Warhold said that talking about them was more interesting than actually viewing them, and this likely was his intent with "A: A Novel" -- to create an artifact that made people talk about it -- and think.
13. Influenced the movement of 'The New Russian Classicism'. Visited St. Petersburg, Russia and presented his 'tomato cans' to Timur Novikov and Sergei Bugayev.
14. Was among the guests at Madonna's and Sean Penn's wedding.
15. Godfather of Bijou Phillips.
16. An astute businessman in the art world, he left an estate worth $500 million when he died.
17. Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 873-876. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
18. David Bowie borrowed one of Warhol's wigs from The Andy Warhol Museum to portray Warhol in Basquiat (1996). Bowie had written the song "Andy Warhol" in tribute to him, which featured on his 1971 album "Hunky Dory".
19. His nephew, James Warhola, wrote and illustrated a children's book titled "Uncle Andy's." It is about James Warhol's visits to his famous uncle in New York City.
20. His older brother, Paul, owned a junkyard in Pittsburgh, located near the future site of The Andy Warhol Museum. Periodically his brother would bring him odd scraps of junk, which Warhol would use in his art.