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

- Allan Kaprow

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

- 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 nonsucc…

- Allan Kaprow

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

- Allan Kaprow

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

- Allan Kaprow

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.

- Allan Kaprow

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…

- Allan Kaprow

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

- Allan Kaprow

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

- Allan Kaprow