Top 1200 Performance Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

My art is applied to another art which is cinema, that makes my life much easier.

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth.

You can't really have art without having a sense of community as art is for others to enjoy as well.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called popular is fugitive in character, with less of the impersonal and intellectual characteristics of the schools. It is the work of talent nourished by personal experience and that of the community - rather than being taken from the experiences of painters in other times and other cultures.

Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people can consume art more quickly. Twitter, videos posted online - how do you utilize that? How do you identify yourself as an individual when you're sitting at this massive dinner table of the world with everyone on, from Kansas to Dubai?

Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.

Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be.

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.

The art of healing, the art of ecstasy, the art of God-consciousness has millions of names in mystic terms. It has to do with rhythm and reality. When the body is in rhythm, there is ease. When the body, or any part of the body goes out of rhythm, there is dis-ease.

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.

Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.

I feel like there's a currency to your personal life and your performance - your acting, your work. If that personal life starts to outweigh what the work is, then your work suffers. Your actual performance suffers because the audience won't see the character, they'll see you.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

When you're so drawn to art, to making pictures and looking at art, it's really all you want to think about.

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.

Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.

In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art.

All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually.

when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.

Some teams hold a little more than others. It's an art, but it's not an art I appreciate.

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.

Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.

There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.

A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.

Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression.

I've had to sell a lot of art, which I've hated to do because I really love the art I have.

When demagogues and dictators ban art, this is the reason: art is the great solvent of obedient fundamentalism.

Concrete, Steel & Paint portrays the core values of restorative justice-respect, responsibility and relationships-expressed through art. it is art that involves victims, offenders and communities in a dialogue that is sometimes difficult and painful, sometimes reconciling, but always engaging. As one prisoner says in the film, 'We have come together collectively through art.' It will be a great discussion tool for college classes, community groups and others interested in issues of justice, community-building, conflict resolution and socially-engaged art.

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.

Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.

If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.

Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.

When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop art was fun.

I really believe in not compromising your art. I feel like I've never compromised my art.

I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain the feelings; art seeks to define them by externalizing them, by giving them significant form. Morality has only one aim - the ideal good; art has quite another aim - the objective truth... art never changes.

I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker.

Remember that failure is part of the process of successful running. Performance is a roller coaster; to think otherwise is irrational and will cause you much stress and discouragement. Lighten up on yourself. Ups and downs can be expected. The performance of most serious runners fluctuates by the week. You win some, you lose some; some days you're hot, some days you're not. Don't fight with yourself when failure, the teacher, pays an unexpected visit. Open up to learning from it.

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.

The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for the few and ignore the masses. … I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with as many different individual ideas about the given piece with no final meaning attached. The viewer creates the reality, the meaning, the conception of the piece. I am merely a middleman trying to bring ideas together.

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.

To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.

The art and architecture of the past that we know is that which remains. The best is that which remains where it was painted, placed or built. Most of the art of the past that could be moved was taken by conquerors. Almost all recent art is conquered as soon as it's made, since it's first shown for sale and once sold is exhibited as foreign in the alien museums. The public has no idea of art other than that it is something portable that can be bought. There is no constructive effort; there is no cooperative effort. This situation is primitive in relation to a few earlier and better times.