Occupation: Painter Birth: August 23, 1927 Death: April 5, 2006
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 configurati….
A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art..
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 nonsucc….
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..
Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed..
The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real mea….
You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper..
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 thousan….
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….
Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work..