Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed. — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real… — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess, for Happenings… — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work. — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible. — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.'… — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies,… — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response. — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper. — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is… — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the… — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
