Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Allan Kaprow

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Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Allan Kaprow was an American painter, assemblagist and a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art. He helped to develop the "Environment" and "Happening" in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as their theory. His Happenings — some 200 of them — evolved over the years. Eventually Kaprow shifted his practice into what he called "Activities", intimately scaled pieces for one or several players, devoted to the study of normal human activity in a way congruent to ordinary life. Fluxus, performance art, and installation art were, in turn, influenced by his work.

American - Painter | August 23, 1927 - April 5, 2006

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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 Kaprow

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

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

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

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Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.

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

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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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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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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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Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Allan Kaprow

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