Allan Kaprow Quotes

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

  Allan Kaprow

  Art, Lines, Should

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• 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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  Artist, Dancer, Needs

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• 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.

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  Dog, Art, Light

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• 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.

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  Taken, Home, Artist

  Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley (2003). “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life”, p.25, Univ of California Press

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

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  Art, Everyday, World

  Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley (2003). “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life”, p.24, Univ of California Press

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

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  Art, Masterpiece, Walks

  "Streets 2K5 international festival Of Street Art". p. 19, May 2005.

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• Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.

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  Notion, Compelling

  Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley (2003). “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life”, p.195, Univ of California Press

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• 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.

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  Art, Names, Wish

  Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley (2003). “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life”, p.21, Univ of California Press

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

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  Artist, Categories, Dilemma

  Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley (2003). “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life”, p.81, Univ of California Press

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• 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.

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  Art, Melting, Surroundings

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• 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.

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  Real, Artist, Trying

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• Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.

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  Ironic, Fame

  Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley (2003). “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life”, p.25, Univ of California Press

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

  Allan Kaprow

  Gum, Teach, Colour

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