Top 1200 Performance Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk--performs the work. The performance is silent. The readers hear the sounds of the words and the beat of the sentences only in their inner ear. Silent drummers on noiseless drums. An amazing performance in an amazing theater.

I'm inspired by good work. Whether it is a great performance by another actor, a piece of art, or someone doing something altruistic.

I've always been interested in the arts and chucked a science degree to study theatre and performance art because I was so enamored by it.

Andy was a nonverbal person; you couldn't get directions out of him. All he knew was what was modern in art was what wasn't art: The telephone was art, the pizza was art, but what was hanging on walls in museums wasn't art.

The art of DJing is sharing music with one another... The technology's definitely taking it into a new direction to where it's really becoming performance-based.

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

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

Professional wresting is like performance art. It truly is. You're taking the crowd on a ride, on an emotional roller coaster.

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 moment of performance, for the people who made the effort to be there: it lives with them.

Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of artists."

Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.

Leadership is the art of creating a working climate that inspires others to achieve extraordinary goals and levels of performance.

Men are enforced into a kind of silence about their gender; they're supposed to not think of it as a performance. That's the definition of manliness - that it's not a performance; it's being yourself, authentic. Whereas women have understood gender as performance. Men have not yet made that quantum leap, or rather they're making it in many ways, they're not thinking about it.

There is a disconnect between the performance in stock market and the performance in many companies.

I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I aim to get a sculptural feel for groups of bodies, as well as create performance art.

There's a real tension between it being a collaborative art process, which is almost like performance art of yourself, and, as we talk about the movie, it's kind of a mix between melodrama and cinéma vérité. This involves ideas about playing the role of yourself and the movie of your life and all these other things.

To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can cultivate a garden. Both have as much claim to being called an art as a poem by Verlaine or a painting by Delacroix… Art is ‘making.’ The art of poetry is the art of making poetry. The art of love is the art of making love... My father never talked to me about art. He could not bear the word.

I think it's important to stay curious and see and experience as much as you can, whether it's art, performance, music, travel, or just hanging out and people-watching.

In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that.

Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will be an affirmation of God.

The whole wrestling art, it's a whole form, is performance, and that's what makes it so exciting to do.

I've always thought if you watch the performance and you don't know about the person, then you only see the performance.

I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else.

Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.

At the crowded Costanzi Theater in Rome, while I was listening to the orchestral performance of your overwhelming Futurist music,1 together with my Futurist friends Marinetti, Boccioni, Carrà, Balla, Soffici, Papini, and Cavacchioli, there came to my mind the idea of a new art, one that only you can create: the Art of Noises, a logical consequence of your marvelous innovations.

That’s the secret to performance: conviction. The right note played tentatively still misses its mark, but play boldly and no one will question you. If one believes there is truth in art – and I do – then it’s troubling how similar the skill of performing is to lying. Maybe lying is itself a kind of art. I think about that more than I should.

I can tell you there will be a performance centre in India. There will be a performance centre in the Middle East. There will, more than likely, be a performance centre in Latin America. We will be replicating this process around the globe, all over.

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 from fourth grade on

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.

Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.

I am thrilled Lady Gaga has helped to teach her audience about long durational work and performance art.

I've never been in a business where safety performance was excellent and the business performance was not, so they go hand in hand, and for me, safety performance is an indication of discipline, of focus and of how joined up an organization is.

Technology is 50% of rock 'n' roll - the magic, the art, the performance. If you don't have good technicians and a strong road crew who are devoted and believe in you and protect you, you're totally naked.

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

I've never been in a business where safety performance was excellent and the business performance was not, so they go hand in hand, and for me, safety performance is an indication of discipline, of focus and of how joined up an organisation is.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

While I was coaching, I believe the motivation talk I gave my players that achieved the best results was in reference to their present game-day effort. I stressed the fact that today's performance could be the most important of their life. Yesterday's performance was already history. Tomorrow really never comes, so today's performance is what really counts.

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

Comedy is more an art of body language and gestures - it is more a performance of an artist than the lines given to him/her.

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

Performance or no performance, perceptions do matter. More so the voters's perceptions on the performance of their state governments.

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

I have a company in the U.K., a performance-capture studio. We're looking to push the boundaries of performance-capture technology in film and video games, but also in live theater, using real-time performance capture with actors onstage, and combining that with holographic imagery.

Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the art of visualizing ideas.

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.

Sexualization is the performance of sexuality, the performance of sexiness. Girls are super good at that now.

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 from fourth grade on.

Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance.

Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a work of art made by art, but not itself art. The art remains in the artist and is the knowledge by which things are made.

I think I'm actually much too shy to do any performance art. I admire the big swings those guys take, but I'm not a one-man band.

Bumps often require giving yourself completely to the talent you're in the ring with, and that's what makes wrestling such a performance art that is different from every other.

Performance for another in no way signals the inferiority of the performer to the one for whom the performance is intended.

I don't need any crutches in order to concentrate. As a child I learned that you must be ready because I'd be yelled at more than other people and it would always be my fault. I learned that to be professional is your number-one priority. The art comes second. You learn that, in order to give your best performance, you have to be a good technician, which means never allowing negative influences affect your performance.

A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.

The most basic problem is that performance appraisals often don't accurately assess performance.

When you go on a stage - or even in a café or a room - and you play it's all happening right then and there: the exchange, the art, the communication. Performance is in the moment.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.