Allan Kaprow quotes
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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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“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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“Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.”
-- Allan KaprowSource : Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley (2003). “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life”, p.195, Univ of California Press
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“This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.”
-- Allan KaprowSource : Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley (2003). “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life”, p.24, Univ of California Press
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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.”
-- Allan KaprowSource : Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley (2003). “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life”, p.25, 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.”
-- Allan KaprowSource : Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley (2003). “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life”, p.21, Univ of California Press
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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...”
-- Allan KaprowSource : Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley (2003). “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life”, p.25, Univ of California Press
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“The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.”
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“Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.”
-- Allan KaprowSource : Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley (2003). “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life”, p.81, Univ of California Press
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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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“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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“A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.”
-- Allan KaprowSource : "Streets 2K5 international festival Of Street Art". p. 19, May 2005.
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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
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