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.
A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art. - Allan Kaprow
A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.
- Allan Kaprow
You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper. - Allan Kaprow
You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper.
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
Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configurati…
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
In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsucc…
This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response. - Allan Kaprow
This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.
The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible. - Allan Kaprow
The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.
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
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…
Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me. - Allan Kaprow
Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.
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 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.
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