This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”  Walt Whitman, “This Is What You Shall Do” from the Preface to 1855 edition of “Leaves of Grass"  

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band (l-r - Billy Davenport, Mike Bloomfield, Mark Naftalin, Paul Butterfield, Jerome Arnold, Elvin Bishop), Chicago Uncredited and Undated Photograph

Melvin Sokolsky Chet Baker and Wally Coover, New York City 1959

Uncredited Photographer Richard Sohl and Lenny Kaye Backing Up Patti Smith, Max's Kansas City, New York City 1974

“People are starving all over the world, what do you mean, ‘red meat will kill you’? Don’t eat no red meat? No, don’t eat no green meat … if you’re one of the chosen few people in the world lucky enough to get your hands on a steak, bite the shit out of it!…We got so much food in America we’re allergic to food. Allergic to food! Hungry people ain’t allergic to shit. You think anyone in Rwanda’s got a fucking lactose intolerance?” Chris Rock, from “Bring the Pain”  1996

"I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them." Susan Sontag, Interview with Leslie Garis, the New York Times 1992

Photos by Richard Avedon

Eartha Kitt photographed by Ernest E. Reshovsky, 1962.

Donna Summer - aired: March 20, 1976 

Barbara Rubin brought Bob Dylan to Andy Warhol's Factory to be the subject of one of Warhol's screen tests. After filming, Warhol gave Dylan a "Double Elvis" (1963) silkscreen painting, which he brought home on top of his station wagon. Dylan regrettably later exchanged the painting for a couch.

Photos by Andy Warhol

Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull, and Brian Jones at a reception for The Supremes on King's Road in London, January 1968.

The Nat King Cole Trio photographed by Herman Leonard in New York, 1949.   

Andy Warhol photographed by Hervé Gloaguen at the Factory in New York City, 1966.

Warhol superstar Edie Sedgwick photographed by Nat Finkelstein, 1966.

Nina Simone at a press reception for Philips Records at Stanhope Place in London on July 14, 1966.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono photographed by Andy Warhol, 1972.