Art Quote by Marina Abramovic

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

— Amanda Palmer

“The value of an artwork is rooted in assumptions about the human performance underlying its creation”

— Anonymous

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

— Roselee Goldberg

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

— Kalan Sherrard

Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.

— Marina Abramovic

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

— Mark Roberts

The problem with our art form: it's so ephemeral, and catching performances can be so difficult... the important thing is what happens at the…

— Judith Weir

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 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

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.

— Vaginal Davis

no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.

— Uta Hagen

No one gives you a manual as to how to be an artist.

— Griff