Andy Warhol said, “In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.” You can’t choose the 5 minutes but why would you be world famous.
Andy, the American painter, printmaker and filmmaker, played a very important part in his time (which was 1928- 1987) as a figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. He coined the expression 15 minutes of fame.
Sadly he only had fifteen minutes of fame himself, when he died at 06:32 on 22 February 1987 in New York City from a routine gall bladder surgery.
If it were up to me my fifteen minutes would have to be something positive, like nursing the oldest lady in the world until she kicks the bucket, or raising orphans (without being in a Tomb Raider movie first). I would definitely hate for it to be for the wrong reasons such as crime, corruption or being assassinated because I kept on critiquing Julius Malema on twitter.
So I shall patiently wait for my fifteen minutes and hope that Andy was just another crazy artist.
I share your sentiments. I would hate to have my 15 minutes of fame splashed all over the media for all the wrong/negative reasons. 15 must go down in style
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