Allan Kaprow Quotes

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• The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.' All…
• A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.
• Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies, a…
• The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real meaning…
• Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.
• The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.
• 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 cannot…
• 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…
• Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.
• This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.
• Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.
• Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings,…

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