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

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Source : Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley (2003). “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life”, p.25, Univ of California Press

Allan Kaprow

#Ironic Quotes #Fame Quotes

“I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.”
“You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You don't boo me.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 31, 2009
“I think the education I've had as an actor I would never have had at university.”
“The presumed causes of Americas troubles can be summed up simply: the evils of unlimited competition, and abuses by those with economic power.”

Source : Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”
“They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't.”
“If you are a success in life, there are places you must go and pay to be humiliated. It is an unwritten law that human beings must be tormented throughout their lives in one way or another. If you are fortunate enough to have risen to a social level where no one does it to you for free, then you must pay for the service.”
“I don't consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself. Take a musician like John Coltrane. He is a perfect musician, who can give expression to all the possibilities of his instrument. But he seems to have difficulty expressing original ideas on it. That is why he keeps looking for ideas in exotic places. At least I don't have that problem, because, like I say, I find my inspiration in myself.”

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