Allan Kaprow
The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.Collection: Art
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 of life will be open to him.Collection: Artist
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 thousand other things which will be discovered by the present generation of artists.Collection: Dog
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 be sold and taken home; they can only be supported.Collection: Taken
This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.Collection: Art
A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.Collection: Art
Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.Collection: Notion
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.Collection: Art
Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.Collection: Artist
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, the artist, his work and everyone who comes to it.Collection: Art
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 will be stated.Collection: Real
Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.Collection: Ironic
You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper.Collection: Gum