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"Allan Kaprow, the Happener"

"Most humans, it seems, still put up fences around their acts and thoughts – even when these are piles of shit – for they have no other way of delimiting them. Contrast Paleolithic cave paintings, in w…"

"The problem with artlike art, or even doses of artlike art that still linger in lifelike art, is that it overemphasizes the discourse within art."

"You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper."

"Well, you know, a lot of work nowadays tends to be illustrative of theory already written, and some of it tends to be quite consciously didactic, as if the determination is to teach somebody something…"

"Kaprow at UBU archives"

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

"Pollock.. ..left us at the point where we must be preoccupied with and even dazzled by the space and objects of our everyday life, either our bodies, clothes, rooms, or, if need be, the vastness of Fo…"

"Around late 1961 to 1962, right around there, somewhat unevenly and sort of spottily, I began to do pieces that were based upon a short text of actions that only involved a handful of friends or stude…"

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

"Allan Kaprow's "Tail Wagging Dog" and other writings first published in The ACT"

"It's not what artists touch that counts most. It's what they don't touch."

"a badly constructed or repaired motor, or like that wonderful event of Tinguely's, where he made a huge contraption in the backyard of the Museum of Modern Art called 'Homage to New York', which was a…"