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Allan Kaprow Quotes

1927–2006 United States

Allan Kaprow (23 August 1927 – 5 April 2006) was an American Fluxus artist, assemblagist a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art, and the originator of Happenings.

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

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

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

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.

It's not what artists touch that counts most. It's what they don't touch.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Allan Kaprow (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.