Quote: In the future everyone will be famous (or anonymous) for 15 minutes

[Laurence Horn]

On Jan 27, 2012, at 2:04 PM, Garson O'Toole wrote:

> The Yale Book of Quotations, the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and
> some other references list the following version of Andy Warhol's
> well-known comment about transitory fame:
>
> In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.
>
> The cite given in YBQ is for a 1968 "exhibition catalogue, Moderna
> Museet, Stockholm, Sweden". Oxford gives the same cite: "volume
> released to mark his exhibition in Stockholm, February–March, 1968".
>
> There is evidence that Warhol may have used a version in 1967 without
> the modifier "world".
>

It has become transmuted for many into "Everyone will be famous for fifteen seconds".  Many many hits for the truncated version, although not quite as many as the longer original.

LH

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