1. Someone said that Brecht wanted everybody to think alike. I want everybody to think alike. But Brecht wanted to do it through Communism, in a way. Russia is doing it under government. It's happening here all by itself without being under a strict government: so if it's working without trying, why can't it work without being Communist? Everybody looks alike and acts alike, and we're getting more and more that way.
I think everybody should be a machine.

- Andy Warhol, Art News interview, 1963

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2. Unleashing a national offensive, spearheaded by the slogan "You Auto Buy," President Eisenhower in 1958 transformed consumer buying into an American duty.

- from Made In USA: An Americanization in Modern Art, The '50s & '60s, by Sidra Stitch

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