Performance Art Quotes

Performance Art Quote of the day

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

Teaching is a performance art.

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.

Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

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.

I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I aim to get a sculptural feel for groups of bodies, as well as create performance art.

I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.

Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance

My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.

Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas.

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

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.

I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound.

Teaching is performance art.

Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.

I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.

We play different people - our art form is performance art - so unless you're playing the same type of person, I don't know if you could improve or make it worse.

Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.

I'd been used to this idea of destructive performance art instead of a slick, good-sounding show. So, I became frustrated as I felt I'd been doing the shows wrong. That sucked.

I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.

I realized [using my own voice] is what creates the performance in the performance art and that's what helps creates the distance for the viewers, like the distance that I get when I step back.

Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art.

If you don't have shadows, you're not in the light.

I loved it when my heart beat quickly and erratically. Yet I found this performance, which was deeply poetic, more enjoyable.

We love music deeply, but why? Put simply: music makes lives, shapes lives, expresses all shades and stages of life - and even saves lives.

Greed is the performance art of the 21st Century.

The Earth Is My Stage And The Sun Is My Spotlight

When you step from the wings onto the stage you go from total blackness to a blinding hot glare. After a moment you adjust, but there is that moment. like being inside lightning.

Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates who we have always wanted to be.

I'm like a circus standing on two legs.

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.