Performance Art Quotes

33 Performance Art quotes by 25 unique authors

I went to a performance-art high school, and a teacher there was signing me up for open-mic nights at the comedy club. I think about… — Margaret Cho
From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues… — Marina Abramovic
The whole point of what i do - the monster ball, the music, the performance art aspect of it, i wanna create a space for… — Lady Gaga
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… — James Marsters
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… — Mary Lynn Rajskub
Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake. — Roger Stone
I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film. — Mike Figgis
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
Hipsters seek refuge in church, Our Lady of Perpetual Subculture. There is some discussion as to whether or not they are still cool but then… — Colson Whitehead
My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art. — Sadie Frost
I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't career-oriented in any… — Troy Garity
I've worked with actors before where I was like, this is not working, and then I've seen their work on the screen and I've been… — Vincent Kartheiser
We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that. — Joseph Jarman
I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the… — Lady Gaga
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… — Lady Gaga
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… — Yoko Ono
I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes. — Liz Phair
'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists… — Jerry Saltz
I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound. — Amanda Palmer
A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the things… — Roberta Smith
When I was coming up with the Hal Hartley films, I was cast as a no one. I had no name visibility. I was working… — Martin Donovan
Israel is a wonderful place to be an artist - a place where imagination flourishes. Israeli culture is refreshingly avant garde - making films, music,… — Ryan Kavanaugh
My individual power is limited. I want to use my high-profile way to wake people up to take action together to do good things. I… — Chen Guangbiao
A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before. — Jack Bowman
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… — Jack Bowman

Who Wrote These Performance Art Quotes

25 authors contributed a total of 33 Performance Art Quotes as follows: