Jack Bowman

A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.

— Jack Bowman

My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is…

— Jack Bowman

Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of…

— Jack Bowman

Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.

— Jack Bowman

My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice -…

— Jack Bowman

This is why my art is about violence. Because I was subjected to so much of it as a kid. After that,…

— Jack Bowman

I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they…

— Jack Bowman

My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out…

— Jack Bowman

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

— Jack Bowman

Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I…

— Jack Bowman

I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids…

— Jack Bowman

My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.

— Jack Bowman

I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from…

— Jack Bowman

We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre.…

— Jack Bowman

But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.

— Jack Bowman

Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.

— Jack Bowman

I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.

— Jack Bowman

At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six…

— Jack Bowman

It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.

— Jack Bowman

Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater.…

— Jack Bowman

Freedom. It's not something you go out and die for.

— Jack Bowman

The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.

— Jack Bowman

I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from when…

— Jack Bowman