Andy:* ‘I have such a strange walk and a strange look. If I could only have been a peculiar comic in the movies, I would have looked like a puppet.’

NO TALKING SHOP, NO DAILY GRIND… Paris, Rue Vivienne, Institut national d’histoire de l’art. The Oval Room, seat 82. Tuesday 25 February 2014, fifty minutes past eleven. This is Andy Warhol* talking to his friend Pat Hackett on Saturday 30 May 1981. Then he adds, still in his Diaries, ‘What’s wrong with me? I look at Vincent and Shelly and they look normal’. Andy comes to a decision a few words later. It’s rather surprising. ‘And I don’t look good in cowboy boots any more’, he tells his confidante. ‘I think I’ll get sneakers. I’ll have Jay take me […] to get some’. Keep walking!