Performance Art Quotes
Collection of top 50 famous quotes about Performance Art
Performance Art Quotes & Sayings
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Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.
— Marina Abramovic
Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.
— Nita Engle
I am a she. The mask is a he, or is actually gender-neutral. People love the character.
— K. Guillory
Was it Laurie Anderson who said that VR would never look real until they learned how to put some dirt in it?
— William Gibson
When it comes to performance art, I am more interested in the failures then the so-called successes. I have never cared for entertaining anyone.
— Vaginal Davis
Food, she decided, was like performance rather than fine art: its power was in its transience and immediacy.
— Hannah Mary Rothschild
I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I aim to get a sculptural feel for groups of bodies, as well as create performance art.
— Spencer Tunick
Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.
— Laurie Anderson
Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance
— Garry Kasparov
I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else.
— Igor Levit
I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.
— Amanda Palmer
The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine. But in all essentials, my life was a good performance.
— Josephine Hart
The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.
— Marina Abramovic
Leadership is the art of creating a working climate that inspires others to achieve extraordinary goals and levels of performance.
— John Michael Montgomery
No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.
— Clive James
I loved it when my heart beat quickly and erratically. Yet I found this performance, which was deeply poetic, more enjoyable.
— Raymond Radiguet
Teaching is performance art.
— Kate Clinton
My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.
— Sadie Frost
A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.
— Franz Grillparzer
First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.
— Marina Abramovic
Greed is the performance art of the 21st Century.
— A.E. Samaan
Great acting is as much about the choices a performer makes as it is about their ability.
— Stewart Stafford
Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance!
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
I consider myself a showman, and I love magic, and I love art, and I love performance, and they're all separate.
— David Blaine
Teaching is a performance art.
— Camille Paglia
Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas.
— Roselee Goldberg
I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.
— Freddie Mercury
I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.
— Kalan Sherrard
I was particularly proud of my performance as the Joker. I considered it a piece of pop art.
— Jack Nicholson
All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
— Jack Bowman
The Earth Is My Stage And The Sun Is My Spotlight
— Joshua Teya
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
— Twyla Tharp
