I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece.
Andy WarholRead
I always think about what it means to wear eyeglasses. When you get used to glasses you don't know how far you could really see. I think about all the people before eyeglasses were invented. It must have been weird because everyone was seeing in different ways according to how bad their eyes were. Now, eyeglasses standardize everyone's vision to 20-20. That's an example of everyone becoming more alike. Everyone could be seeing at different levels if it weren't for glasses.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote reflects on the impact of eyeglasses on vision and perception, suggesting a uniformity in human experience brought by them.
Andy Warhol's quote delves into the existential implications of wearing eyeglasses, illustrating how they not only enhance individual vision but also create a standardized way of seeing the world. He highlights that before the invention of glasses, people experienced the world differently based on their eyesight, and how glasses have brought a form of equality in perception. This encourages us to consider how tools and inventions shape our understanding and interaction with reality.
Themes
EyeglassesVisionPerceptionStandardizationEquality
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech on innovation, one could use this quote to highlight how technology equalizes human experiences.
More from Andy Warhol
All quotes →Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
Andy WarholRead
I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.
Andy WarholRead
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art
Andy WarholRead
I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.
Andy WarholRead
I like to be the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. But usually being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space is worth it, because something funny always happens.
Andy WarholRead
Similar quotes
The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree burgeons with leaves again in the spring.
HomerRead
Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.
Nate SilverRead
To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
F. Scott FitzgeraldRead
But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.
Margaret MitchellRead
As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is 'inseparable' from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech, moreover, is essential not only for its own sake but for the sake of truth, which requires absolute liberty for the utterance of unpopular and even demonstrably false opinions.
Gertrude HimmelfarbRead
Politics separate men by bringing them together only superficially. Art and culture unite us in a common anguish that is our only possible fraternity, that of our existential and metaphysical community.
Eugene IonescoRead