Art Quote by Marina Abramovic Download Open image “Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.” — Marina Abramovic ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Fighting Mainstream Performance Performances
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 Copy Share Image
I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art. — Kalan Sherrard Copy Share Image
A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before. — Jack Bowman Copy Share Image
Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity. — Jack Bowman Copy Share Image
Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be… — Vittorio De Sica Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think performance art comes from a simple place of wanting to express things beyond just sound. — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I stopped worrying about competition in contemporary art. It feels a little bit more pure. That's where I am, one step back. — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what… — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman. Is it a good… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I hate studios. A studio is a black hole. I never use a studio to work. It's very artificial to go to a studio… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memory. It's so immaterial and… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I can explain my work to the cleaner or the president; it's all the same to me. I am very communist in this way. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
My memoirs are full of humor, I had to change jokes because it was a little too dark. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
To be in a magazine when you're 20 is okay, but when you do it when you're 65, it's much more fun! — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Most of the time, the artists are not supposed to wear the fashion. It is always seen as a vanity. But I think I… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I didn't give any instruction to the video, because it was a new medium. I didn't know what to tell him; it was so… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
If I'm not nervous, I'm nervous. You never know how people are going to receive the work. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
