Andy Warhol on consumerism:
“Buying is much more American than thinking.”
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Andy Warhol on consumerism: “Buying is much more American than thinking.”
Our advertising and even our arts convey the idea that we as a society are brash, irreverent, and free of all constraint, when the best available evidence would suggest that we are in fact tame, spayed, and easily brought to heel.
Garret Keizer • The Enigma of Anger: Essays on a Sometimes Deadly Sin
All pretenses aside, Andy Warhol’s quote is the dominant sentiment of our time: “Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.” Making money is a high. Like sex and drugs and gambling and art. That all these activities cluster together at things called “art fairs” is no mistake.
Modern aspiration is not about having money to buy things, but having taste to know what to buy
andjelicaaa.substack.com • Move Over Influencers, Here Come Curators
In an aggressive consumer culture like ours, where the financial worth of everyone and everything is the dominant theme, it takes some courage to stand for something different.
Lynne Twist • The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life
I heard the same Andy Warhol quote several times: “Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”