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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.