300px|Quote by Andy Warhol on a building in Rotterdam. 15 minutes of fame is short-lived media publicity or celebrity of an individual or phenomenon. The expression was inspired by Andy Warhol's words "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes  " , which appeared in the program for a 1968 exhibition of his work at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden.Guinn and Perry, p. 4    Photographer Nat Finkelstein claimed credit for the expression, stating that he was photographing Warhol in 1966 for a proposed book. A crowd gathered trying to get into the pictures and Warhol supposedly remarked that everyone wants to be famous, to which Finkelstein replied, "Yeah, for about fifteen minutes, Andy."Guinn and Perry, pp. 364—65 The phenomenon is often used in reference to figures in the entertainment industry or other areas of popular culture, such as reality television and YouTube. An older version of the same concept in English is the expression "nine days' wonder", which dates at least as far back as the Elizabethan era.
300px|Quote by Andy Warhol on a building in Rotterdam. 15 minutes of fame is short-lived media publicity or celebrity of an individual or phenomenon. The expression was inspired by a quotation attributed to Andy Warhol: "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes . " This quotation was first printed in the program for a 1968 exhibition of Warhol's work at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden.Guinn and Perry, p. 4 The phenomenon is often used in reference to figures in the entertainment industry or other areas of popular culture, such as reality television and YouTube. An older version of the same concept in English is the expression "nine days' wonder", which dates at least as far back as the Elizabethan era. Origins Photographer Nat Finkelstein claimed credit for the expression, stating that he was photographing Warhol in 1966 for a proposed book. A crowd gathered trying to get into the pictures and Warhol supposedly remarked that everyone wants to be famous, to which Finkelstein replied, "Yeah, for about fifteen minutes, Andy."Guinn and Perry, pp. 364—65 
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An older version of the same concept in English is the expression "nine days' wonder", which dates at least as far back as the Elizabethan era.