Jack Bowman Quotes

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• This is why my art is about violence. Because I was subjected to so much of it as a kid. After that, and a lot…
• The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.
• A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
• Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due…
• Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.
• It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.
• I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.
• My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined…
• My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.
• I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book…
• All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
• At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property…
• Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too…
• But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.
• Freedom. It's not something you go out and die for.
• I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed.
• I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from when someone is trying…
• I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian…
• Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys…
• My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know,…

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