Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.

Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.

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.

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.

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.

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

Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.