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

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

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.

Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings, the artist, his work and everyone who comes to it.

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

Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.

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.