"I am not so sure whether what we……" — Allan Kaprow
"I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth."
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Allan Kaprow
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12 Quotes by Allan Kaprow
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The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He…
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A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.
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Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old…
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The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them…
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Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.
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The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.
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In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth…
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Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never…
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This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.
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Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.
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Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an…
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