Andy Warhol probably never said that thing about everyone in the future getting their 15 minutes of fame. It might have been Swedish art collector Pontus Hultén. Warhol is the household name, though, so he gets the credit. But he did say this: "Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art." Warhol won his first advertising award in 1952.

Back in 1982, Andy Warhol was, somewhat infamously, turned into a robot. The machine was made by a Disney Imagineering veteran for a project that never really took off, but Warhol liked his animatronic self. "Machines have less problems," he once said. "I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?" The artist, who died in 1987, was a master of his own cult of personality, and the robot was practically a manifestation of how the world perceived him: meticulously crafted, if a bit rigid and monotone in his conversational style.