Performance art Quotes

“Music arrives when the Muse comes around.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Teaching is a performance art.

— Camille Paglia

There's an instant gratification to performance art.

— Rachel Zegler

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

— Lady Gaga

“The Earth Is My Stage And The Sun Is My Spotlight”

— Joshua Teya

Stand-up is probably the most solo performance in art.

— Louis C. K

Teaching is performance art.

— Kate Clinton

“Was it Laurie Anderson who said that VR would never look real until they learned how to put some dirt in it?”

— William Gibson

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

— Kalan Sherrard

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

— Sadie Frost

Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion.

— Jessica Brown Findlay

“When a person encounters his own statue and takes a hammer to it, performance art adds depth to greatness.”

— Bauvard

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

— Nita Engle

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

— Joseph Jarman

“I am a she. The mask is a he, or is actually gender-neutral. People love the character.”

— K. Guillory

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put…

— Laurie Anderson

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

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

That kind of piece, perhaps most recognizable because of Yoko Ono's similar work, built a bridge between performance art and music -…

— Tony Conrad

“If I took a candy bar, ripped off the wrapper, ate the candy bar, and pinned the wrapper to the wall, is…

— Jarod Kintz

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that…

— Edmund White

I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of…

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

We have a very physical performance art. A lot of times, when you want to achieve a certain emotion, you have to…

— Kenny Omega

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

— Roselee Goldberg

Hipsters seek refuge in church, Our Lady of Perpetual Subculture. There is some discussion as to whether or not they are still…

— Colson Whitehead

I made my performance debut in New York City downtown on the Lower East Side in college doing awkward performance art as…

— Annaleigh Ashford

I've worked with actors before where I was like, this is not working, and then I've seen their work on the screen…

— Vincent Kartheiser

It was at a performance art space that's no longer around, Gusto House... All of these great performers from all over the…

— John Leguizamo

[Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they…

— Kevin Spacey

There's a real tension between it being a collaborative art process, which is almost like performance art of yourself, and, as we…

— Robert Greene

I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't…

— Troy Garity

A lot of festivals can be a jumble of electronic music and rock and roll, and everything's all mixed up - some…

— Jenny O

Writers are egotists. All artists are. They can’t be altruists and get their work done. And writers love to whine about the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter's deadness; harvest;…

— Shauna Niequist

“Great acting is as much about the choices a performer makes as it is about their ability.”

— Stewart Stafford

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

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Amanda Palmer

Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.

— Jack Bowman

Performance art is really more of a command than an invitation.

— Elvis Mitchell

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

— Roger Stone

It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level.

— Mark Roberts