“Some company recently was interested in buying my “aura.” They didn’t want my product. They kept saying, “We want your aura.” I never figured out what they wanted. But they were willing to pay a lot for it. So then I thought that if somebody was willing to pay that much for my ‘it’, I should try to figure out what ‘it’ is.

I think “aura” is something that only somebody else can see, and they only see as much of it as they want to. It’s all in the other person’s eyes. You can only see an aura on people you don’t know very well or don’t know at all. I was having dinner the other night with everybody from my office. The kids at the office treat me like dirt, because they know me and they see me everyday. But then there was this nice friend that somebody had brought along who had never met me, and this kid could hardly believe that he was having dinner with me! Everybody else was seeing me, but he was seeing my “aura”.

When you just see somebody on the street, they can really have an aura. But then they open their mouth, there goes the aura. “Aura” must be when you open your mouth.”

- Warhol, “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol”

All I hear about Andy Warhol is bad things. “I Shot Andy Warhol” sympathises with Solanas, and makes him about to be a vapid, voyeuristic creep who created shallow artworks in the name of fame. I have got a good deal from his “Philosophy” – I really think he was trying to do something underrated, underappreciated, and completely new.