Top 1200 Performance Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Music and art well and truly saved my life really - the light switched on when I discovered art.

The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.

I have a large number of enthusiastic admirers of my art. And they all sing a hymn in praise from the bottom of their hearts for my art.

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.

The greatest art in life is to believe in Christ. That art is learned only in the Holy Spirit's school.

If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.

I think there is a debate in the arts about, you know, whether we must strive for art for art's sake, and you know, kind of try to keep political debate out of our work. And to that I say, I'd like you to show me an example of, you know, this so-called apolitical art. I don't think there's any such thing.

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

People don't buy and sell art based on the personality of the artist. Or there wouldn't be much art bought and sold.

Drag is very much an art form, and all art goes through ebbs and flows and trends.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.

Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.

All art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is always making us reassess our thoughts and feelings about how we relate to other people. There are always people who fear that and want to suppress that.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

When I was in my studio I didn't give a damn what sex I was... I thought art is art.

There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.

You never know when contemporary art is going to insinuate itself into a normally art-free zone.

What I'm most fascinated by is the ability of art to induce changes, but remain grounded solidly in its art practice.

Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness.

My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.

Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.

Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description.

The price we sell things for is not important. What is important is we sell art that has to be replaced. You become good in art by doing art. The more you sell, the more you must produce.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing picture books is an art - the art of word choice.

If I ever have a conflict between art and nature, I let art win.

A master of an art is someone who's been mastered by the art. They've become so one with what they teach that you can't tell the teacher from the student.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.

I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.

It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art!

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

Art when inspired with love leads to higher realms, and that art will open for you the inner life.

Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.

Although my everyday artwork is tattoo oriented, I definitely do not try to limit my art or art mediums.

Internet can provide the power to believe in art in new formulas, because it is the newest medium for art.

Sports is a perfect activity in which to see streaks and cycles, organizational and otherwise, in action - and to watch confidence build or erode. There are repeated episodes of performance with similar rules and clear winners or losers. I added team sports to my studies of business because there are excellent parallels to work groups in the performance of sports teams and also excellent parallels to larger, more complex businesses or organizations in the strategy, structure, and culture surrounding any particular team.

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

The best stuff is done by people who love it, whether that's high art or low art, whatever that is.

Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.

Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.

One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

If Graffiti is art and art is a crime then how come piccaso never done time?

Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

To me, this is the most awesome kind of art. When the music is right, everybody is as much a part of the art.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

What does art mean to me? I never really think about the 'meaning' of art. Yet, obviously, that's what I do.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.