You can be watching T.V. and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke too.A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All Cokes are the same and all Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.
quote by:
andy warhol (1928-1987)
quoted: sleeve of
new art riot eptaken from: Warhol's 1975 book 'The Philosophy of Andy Warhol from A to B and Back Again'
original text:
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.
about the quoted person:
american artist, one of the founders of 'pop art'.see the
manic museum in our painters section for a comprehensive biography of warhol.the phrase "Nationalism Is A Created Product" was added to this quote by the Manics.[MANY THANKS TO THE DRAINPIPE ON OUR FORUM FOR PROVIDING THIS INFORMATION.]
