When I was a kid I ate sports books up, like "Winners Never Quit" by Phil Pepe. That was like my bible.
You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper.
The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.
The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer. ' He is simply an 'artist. ' All of life will be open to him.
Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies, a thousand other things which will be discovered by the present generation of artists.
In 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.
This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.
Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
Thanks to feminism, women can now acquire status in two ways: through marriage or their own achievements. Cure cancer or marry the man who does, either way society will applaud. Unless he marries into the British royal family, it doesn't work that way for men. Wives shed no glory on their husbands. Having tea with Nancy Reagan is an honor; having tea with Denis Thatcher is a joke.
If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years.
'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.