“You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper.”

—  Allan Kaprow

PORTRAITS, Talking with Artists at the Met, The Modern, The Louvre and Elsewhere (1998) by Michael Kimmelman http://www.lichtensteinfoundation.org/kimmelman1.htm

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