Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.
Allan KaprowI 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.
Allan KaprowArtist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.
Allan KaprowIn 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.
Allan Kaprow