Warhol's "everyone will be famous" from Rivers' "everybody will be famous"?

[Garson O'Toole]

Stephen: Many thanks for that valuable citation. I have access to a
library that lists the book in its catalog and will try to check it on
paper in the coming weeks.

Here is an interesting variant attributed to Warhol in 1968
(apparently). I will try to check this cite on paper, too.

Cite: Circa 1968, The culture vultures: or, Whatever became of the
emperor's new clothes? by Alan Levy, GB Page 203, G. P. Putnams Sons,
New York. (Google Books snippet; Not verified on aper; Data may be
inaccurate)
[Begin excerpt]
And Andy Warhol, who ought to know, purrs to the media that today's
turnover in art is only the beginning. "There's going to be a day when
no one will be famous for more than a week. Then everyone will have a
chance to be famous."
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:
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> As Garson posted,* Time Magazine, October 13, 1967 reported:
> Whole new schools of painting seem to charge through the art scene with the speed of an
> express train, causing Pop Artist Andy Warhol to predict the day "when everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."
>
> Might this famous quote have been inspired by or borrowed from a similar quote on a similar art subject by another NY artist from a book published earlier (**) that same year?***:
>
> The art explosion introduces so many new names and new kinds of work that we are approaching the time when, as Larry Rivers says, "Everybody will be famous."
>
> Constructivism; origins and evolution, by George Rickey (G. Braziller, 1967) page x.
>
> Stephen Goranson
> http://www.duke.edu/~goranson
>
> *Cite: 1967 October 13, Time, Sculpture: Master of the Monumentalists,
> Time, Inc, New York. (Online Time magazine archive) link
> http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,837402,00.html
> [Begin excerpt]
> In the year 1967, the styles and statements of America's brash,
> brilliant and often infuriating contemporary artists have not only
> become available to the man in the street, but are virtually
> unavoidable. And with proliferation comes confusion. Whole new schools
> of painting seem to charge through the art scene with the speed of an
> express train, causing Pop Artist Andy Warhol to predict the day "when
> everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."
> [End excerpt]
>
> **amazon claims it was punlished Jan. 1, 1967, but I haven't confirmed that.
> ***
> http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=warhol+predict+%22everyone+*+famous%22&tbs=,cdr:1,cd_max:Dec%2031_2%201968&num=10#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&tbs=cdr:1%2Ccd_max%3ADec+31_2+1968&tbm=bks&source=hp&q=+%22everybody+will+be+famous%22&pbx=1&oq=+%22everybody+will+be+famous%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=5919l8539l6l9177l7l7l0l0l0l0l54l323l7l7l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=d060f9bb033e8866&biw=1125&bih=830
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