Allan Kaprow Quotes
The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.
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.
This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.
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.
Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.
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.
You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper.
Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.
...it's not what artists touch that counts most. It's what they don't touch.