Allan Kaprow Quotes
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.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.
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At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
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In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.
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From my own kind I only learnHow foolish comfort is
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Just because you know I had no other choice doesn't make the anger go away. I understand that. But you're a man now. You can put away these childish things.
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The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.
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One can derive the same fun from print-making as from making mud pies and great subtlety can be achieved through the use of transparent inks, half-tone screens and even accidental colour combinations, which is often where the art hides.
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We see plenty of artistic work that reflects superficial social conditions, but very little work that questions fundamental values.
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I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.
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Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.
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I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.
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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.
