Allan Kaprow

The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only…

— Allan Kaprow

In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess,…

— Allan Kaprow

Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our…

— Allan Kaprow

The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.

— Allan Kaprow

Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.

— Allan Kaprow

The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply…

— Allan Kaprow

Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a…

— Allan Kaprow

This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.

— Allan Kaprow

You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper.

— Allan Kaprow

A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.

— Allan Kaprow

I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art,…

— Allan Kaprow

Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable…

— Allan Kaprow

Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.

— Allan Kaprow