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

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Source : Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley (2003). “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life”, p.81, Univ of California Press

Allan Kaprow

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“All the stuff we've ever seen in the laboratory, all the kinds of particles and matter and energy, that only makes up 5 percent of our universe.”

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“The pressure performing is something you have to get used to, really really quick.”

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“I love the idea of a woman's suit, but I wanted something that was a little easier to wear.”
“Beethoven and Wagner for many years wrung our hearts. But now we are sated with them and derive much greater pleasure from ideally combining the noise of streetcars, internal-combustion engines, automobiles, and bust crowds than from rehearsing, for example, the 'Eroica' or the 'Pastorale'...away! les ust be gone, since we shall not much longer succeed in restraining a desire to create a new musical realism by a generous distribution of sonorous blows and slaps, leaping numbly over violins, pianofortes, contrabasses, and groaning organs, Away!”
“Every soil does not produce every material.”

Source : "Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth". Book by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (§ 2), 1766.
“Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.”
“It ain't like we're curing cancer or anything, we're watching basketball.”
“Don't think of people in the mass. This gives you a blurred view”

Source : "Scientific Advertising Origins".

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