Allan Kaprow

Allan Kaprow was an American Fluxus artist, assemblagist a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art, and the originator of Happenings.

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• You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper.
  • PORTRAITS, Talking with Artists at the Met, The Modern, The Louvre and Elsewhere (1998) by Michael Kimmelman

• The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.
  • "Transfiguration of the Commonplace" by Anna Dezeuze in Variant 22 (Spring 2005)

• A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.
  • 2K5 international festival Of Street Art (May 2005) pg 19 (PDF)

• ...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...

• • Journal of Contemporary Art, Inc. accessed 2008-04-28