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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.