The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible. - Allan Kaprow

It's not what artists touch that counts most. It's what they don't touch.

Pollock.. ..left us [c. 1958] at the point where we must be preoccupied with and even dazzled by the space and objects of our everyday life, either our bodies, clothes, rooms, or, if need be, the vastness of Forty-Second Street [New York].. ..Objects of every sorts are materials for the new art, paints, chairs, food, 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.. ..All will become materials for this new concrete art.

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