Allan Kaprow Quotes

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... the problem with artlike art, or even doses of artlike art that still linger in lifelike art, is that it overemphasizes the discourse within 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.

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

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

Allan Kaprow