“Therefore, everything seen – every object, that is, plus the process of looking at it – is a Duchamp. Turn it over and it is.”

—  Andy Warhol

Quote by John Cage that Banes relates to Warhol's work in Greenwich Village 1963: Avant-garde Performance and the Effervescent Body, Sally Banes, Duke University Press, 1993; p. 124
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