Bob Colacello Quotes

• You can't hang around geniuses forever because they end up taking everything you've got. That's why they're the genius and you're not.

  Bob Colacello

  Forever, Genius, Ends

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• The funny thing about me is I'm kind of schizophrenic, because after four or five nights in a row of going out to parties, I just have to be alone. I hate people and feel like they're keeping me from what I really want to do, like write a fabulous novel, which I probably never will.

  Bob Colacello

  Hate, Party, Writing

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• Creo que como mis padres eran esencialmente vendedores e italoamericanos, siempre parecía llevarme bien con la gente; tenía el don de encontrar algo de lo que hablar.

  Bob Colacello

  Italian, Thinking, People

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• I think his portraits of Jackie, Liz, Marilyn, Mao, Elvis, Lenin - and objects like the soup cans, the dollar signs, the hammer and sickle, it's all about icons. Its all about what people worship in an irreligious or secular world. In terms of Andy's personality and Andy Warhol as a human being who I was very close to, I still feel kind of sorry for him on a personal level. I mean, he was the ultimate example of great success wrapped around inner turmoil and emotional pain.

  Bob Colacello

  Sorry, Pain, Mean

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• He was, as Billy Name said in the acclaimed Ric Burns documentary about Andy Warhol, uninterested in being a second-tier artist. He was uninterested in being a first-tier artist! He wanted to be, you know, a god. Someone who completely changed the...he wanted to be Zeus with the lightning bolt and nothing less would have satisfied him.

  Bob Colacello

  Artist, Names, Lightning

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• He [Andy Warhol] engaged people and I think all of that is what helped keep him keyed in to the times beyond all of the celebrity stuff that was going on around him. He was much more like a fan than a celebrity himself.

  Bob Colacello

  Thinking, People, Fans

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• Andy Warhol] salía todas las noches a cinco o seis fiestas con una grabadora en un bolsillo y una cámara con película y pilas de repuesto en el otro, grabando y fotografiando constantemente a todo aquel con el que se cruzaba.

  Bob Colacello

  Party, Cameras, Pockets

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• Lo que a menudo parecía mezquindad o frialdad era en realidad miedo a las emociones y a la intimidad.

  Bob Colacello

  Emotion, Intimacy, Meanness

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• Ha pasado tanto tiempo y han pasado tantas cosas que ahora puedo mirar atrás con mucha menos emoción y mi opinión sobre Andy como artista se reduce ahora a una simple frase: hizo arte religioso para una sociedad secular y por eso tiene tanto atractivo.

  Bob Colacello

  Religious, Art, Simple

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• I don't think he'd [Andy Warhol] be that amazed because he was so driven to be the Picasso of the second half of the 20th century.

  Bob Colacello

  Thinking, Half, Warhol

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• Anyway, when I finished the book, I handed it in, didn't want to read it again, but when it finally was in print I felt like OK, I have to read this. And yeah, I thought God, this is petty, this is silly, too emotional, too raw...and maybe it was then, but now it all seems that it's so much better because all the stuff that felt petty and silly now seems more relevant because Andy was so important.

  Bob Colacello

  Silly, Book, Emotional

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• Diana Vreeland was "the Empress," the avatar of the age. An old name or old money were not enough to get you into Studio 54 - or Interview magazine, for that matter. You had to have a lot of something else, like looks or brains or wit or fabulous clothes.

  Bob Colacello

  Brain, Age, Fabulous

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• Envy is a surefire party killer.

  Bob Colacello

  Party, Envy

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• I took photos from 1976 to when I left in 1993, primarily for Interview and a column I had called "Bob Colacello's Out" which Andy had conceived of. I've never taken a picture since, not even with my phone! It just felt too Andy Warhol to keep going around town taking photographs. And I never really thought of doing anything with them after I left the magazine until this great Art Director Sam Shahid about for or five years ago asked where all of the old photos were.

  Bob Colacello

  Art, Taken, Years

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• I mean when the book first came out it was not a bestseller, but it got good reviews and at that point I was done writing about Andy, done talking about Andy....but now, I kind of love it. All these smart, attractive young people think I'm cool! So here I am a guy in his sixties with all of these interesting friends in their twenties. It's very stimulating and keeps me very much in the present.

  Bob Colacello

  Smart, Book, Writing

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• Well that's what Andy wore to bed. You know, the oxford button-down Brooks Brothers shirt that he's been wearing all day and his big long socks. He'd just take off his jeans and his boots and go to bed. Then he'd change into a fresh ensemble after he had breakfast the next morning.

  Bob Colacello

  Morning, Brother, Jeans

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• A lot of people found themselves working at the Factory and some even in his bed as a result of random occurrences like your call. Most famous artists have never been all that interested in meeting strangers. That was not the case with Andy Warhol at all.

  Bob Colacello

  Artist, People, Bed

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• One thing about Andy Warhol that was remarkable and also key to his widespread appeal is that he was so open! He would get on the phone and talk to the kid who called to say he was a fan - you know, Andy would walk from his house every morning down to the Factory carrying a bunch of Interviews - people would stop him and he would sign them, and what have you.

  Bob Colacello

  Morning, Kids, Keys

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• His [Andy warhol] films were way ahead of the times...and I'm not suggesting this has all necessarily been a good thing for America, mind you. I kind of think we're all in a really big mess, kind of like the end days of the Roman Empire.

  Bob Colacello

  Thinking, America, Mind

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• Very few people actually saw Andy's films like Chelsea Girls where he filmed seven hours, ran it on two screens, where each scene was in a different room at the Chelsea Hotel with these people he called 'Superstars" who were basically super-exhibitionists - the guy in one room high on LSD talking about masturbation, Brigid Berlin in another room playing a lesbian and shooting up people with amphetamines right through their jeans, it was all real and they were really doing it (though Brigid is now a proper lady), but you know Andy really did pre-date reality TV.

  Bob Colacello

  Girl, Real, Talking

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• Andy [Warhol] put on his fey kind of act, but he wanted to be number one and he succeeded. But you never know. Fifty years from now he might not be seen as so important, but the way our whole culture has gone, and the way it continues to go, is his way - for better or for worse.

  Bob Colacello

  Years, Numbers, Important

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• And out of the blue, I got a call from an editor friend at Knopf and she said that they were interested in putting out an update for their vintage paperback line. So I was more than thrilled and it was suggested that perhaps I could do a 1,000 word new introduction covering what's happened with the whole Warhol thing since 1990 when the first edition hardcover came out and, uh, that was about August 1st and I sat down at my computer here in East Hampton and on on August 30th I'd written almost 10,000 words!

  Bob Colacello

  Blue, August, Vintage

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• Fortunately I had a great intern who did a lot of the research on Andy's prices, which of course are phenomenal, but getting them straight - you know, he's reached this $100million plateau that only a handful of other artists have reached, which puts him in the company of Cezanne, Klimt, Picasso, and such.

  Bob Colacello

  Artist, Research, Cezanne

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• I could write an entirely new book about Andy Warhol, but I don't think I will. I certainly don't think Nancy Reagan would like that, as she's been patiently waiting for Volume 2 of my chronicle of the life of her and Ronnie.

  Bob Colacello

  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

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• Well, it wasn't really a decision on my part although you always hope as an author that a book that goes out of print somehow winds up back in print. These days publishers like to put out-of-print books into e-book form, but I really wanted to do an update.

  Bob Colacello

  Book, Wind, Decision

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