Art's Most Legendary Frenemies (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Long before middle school girls made 'frenemy' a household term with their three-way phone calls and backhanded insults, Raphael and Michelangelo were having an old-school frenemy showdown in the Vatican. The love/hate relationships described below could only occur between two types of people: hormonal pre-teens and great artists.

What exactly is a frenemy? Someone who you spend your days hating intensely but would never get rid of. Someone who inspires you even as they sicken you. It's a hatred stronger than all of your loves, locked in an epic saga that brings out the best (and worst) in both of you. Take a look at the artists who kept their friends close and their frenemies closer.

Warner Herzog + Klaus Kinski

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When 12-year-old Herzog first saw Kinski he recalls that he "knew at that moment that my destiny was to direct films, and that he would be the actor." Cute!

Herog directed Kinski in five films, after which Kinski wrote in his autobiography that Herzog was a "nasty, sadistic, treacherous, cowardly creep." Not cute.

Herzog later made a fim called 'My Best Fiend,' about his relationship with Kinski, in which he explained the two found the adjectives above together to create more drama for the book. You two...

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Warner Herzog + Klaus Kinski

When 12-year-old Herzog first saw Kinski he recalls that he "knew at that moment that my destiny was to direct films, and that he would be the actor." Cute! Herog directed Kinski in five films, after which Kinski wrote in his autobiography that Herzog was a "nasty, sadistic, treacherous, cowardly creep." Not cute. Herzog later made a fim called 'My Best Fiend,' about his relationship with Kinski, in which he explained the two found the adjectives above together to create more drama for the book. You two...

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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/31/arts-most-legendary-frene_n_1021007.html

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